However, I also feel that the PPL should contain more instrument flying in the syllabus.
The price of avgas has gone through the roof, airspace in the UK gets more and more complicated, the number of exams has gone from six to seven and will soon be nine, the minimum time to get a PPL used to be forty hours, now it is forty five. There is a correlation between these disincentives and the falling number of people getting and keeping a PPL. GA is in big trouble, making it even more onerous is not going to help
Reducing the number of accidents by making it harder to fly isn't really an answer. China and Japan have very low numbers of GA accidents, mainly because they have no GA
There are still too many accidents resulting from loss of control after inadvertent entry into cloud - most could have been prevented if the pilots concerned had just kept flying the aeroplane, but when the crunch came, they lacked either the skill or the confidence to do so.
I agree, but all those pilots had passed the Human Factors/Flight Safety Exam. They had done a minimal amount of instrument flying during their PPL course and had demonstrated to an examiner that they could do a rate one turn to get out of cloud. You can only go so far in protecting people from themselves