UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has surprised the pundits and called a snap General Election for 4th July 2024. Why did he do so? There are different theories why he did not use the next six months to try to turn round the dismal record of his Conservative Party, trailling more than 20 points in …
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Hiding from accountability
Officials in public life are hiding from accountability. How do we improve public accountability? It did not begin with Kwasi Kwarteng's "not-so-mini" budget, which proved to be the biggest tax-cutting budget in a generation, disguised as a mini-budget, for which he did not provide the usual Report on the Economic and Fiscal Outlook from the …