Decentralising Westminster power - Decentralising power from Westminster to the regions, including constitutional reform for England, Wales and Scotland.
Decentralising the state is a big part of this challenge.
Peter Mandelson has blasted Labour for failing to have a strategy for decentralising power from London to northern England.
Before the violence, the idea of "decentralising" Kosovo was hardly conceivable.
It helps that this wing of the party approves of the government's main missions: cutting spending and decentralising public services.
Senior officers are worried that without Dr Fox to champion them, the reforms aimed at decentralising the running of the single services will wither.
There is also a difference of emphasis between those Tories who yearn to shrink the state, such as Mr Osborne, and those focused on decentralising it, such as Mr Hilton.
Mr Osborne's focus is slimming the state, Mr Hilton's is decentralising it, which may need cash to lure in "social entrepreneurs" (see article) and local volunteers.
The better answer would have been a flat no; but the "national champion" notion, so dear in France, is alive even among Mr Aznar's team in market-opening, decentralising Spain.The other supply-side issue is flexible labour.
Partly as a response to that, he also notes that he and his contemporaries are keen on decentralising power, not least because they see it as necessary to drive growth.
The next six months in which the decentralising fruits of Mr Cruddas's policy review will appear and, if not nurtured by the leadership, wither will indicate which path he chooses.
