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UK Politics Needs A Deep Clean
How times change. It was only last autumn when I outlined here in CapX how an already-sleazy new Government needed an integrity reset to clean up politics and save its own reputation at the same time. Now it is increasingly clear that we are…
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Britain could be a true meritocracy – an aristocracy of talent
Arise Sir Idris Elba, Sir Christopher Dean and Dame Jayne Torvill. This year’s New Year Honours list had a host of well-deserved gongs for famous and not-so-famous names, alongside the usual criticisms about back-scratching cronyism too. Whatever the rights and…
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How To Clean Up Westminster
My successor as Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Tsar is the redoubtable Labour Baroness Margaret Hodge, a five-foot-nothing spitfire who doesn’t take nonsense from anyone. She’s going to need every ounce of her trademark energy and determination after the Government stepped on…
