The phrase succinctly articulated that, no matter our differences, we have more in common than that which divides us. In any other era, that kind of national research exercise would have been prohibitively expensive. It means as part of the survey you can leave a 60-second voice note on your vision for the country. Our ability to gather all this information means the national conversation will provide the richest ever snapshot of what future we want to build together. Brendan Cox is co-founder of the Together Coalition, which acts as the secretariat for the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion