It's incredibly hard to think about what goes on in other countries unprompted. It's not that ideas from foreign countries are dismissed for xenophobic reasons, it's just psychologically abnormal to even notice them at all, especially under stress 
A lot of people who do compare policies between countries (eg the MPs who asked about covid stuff at the select committee) have spent periods living in other countries or are married to foreigners, it does seem to alter the default geographical scale of thinking
Obvs suspicious of anything which favours my own demographic so if anyone studies the long term effects of / associations with people who live in multiple countries
Maybe we could survey civil servants on their international experience and see if it correlates with the geographic range of policy ideas or something
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