It's a measure of the chaos surrounding our political system that the announcement of a contract to establish a £200m youth endowment fund to tackle serious violence crept into consciousness over the weekend. In normal times something as current and significant as this would have seen senior ministers rushing to photo opportunities in youth clubs all over the country. Maybe they were worried about finding any left to visit.
Unsurprisingly, a march by millions of people in central London and the prospect of a prime ministerial resignation, cabinet coup or the spontaneous combustion of our entire democracy conspired to keep the announcement off the front pages. As the endowment fund is brought to life by the winning consortium of Impetus, Social Investment Business and the Early Intervention Foundation, we need to guard that it's not just the announcement that gets scuppered by Brexit.
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