Calls for a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ have been made since David Cameron’s time as Leader of the Opposition all the way through to Keir Starmer’s premiership. Yet for all the rhetoric, the quangocracy has grown bigger, better staffed and more powerful, as is detailed in the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s new quango database. With over 500,000 […]
Last week, I headed up to University of York for a debate hosted by one of their societies. The topic was ‘This house supports the smoking ban for the sake of the economy’. It was reassuring that they had made it a debate about economics. Smokers cost the NHS about £3 billion per year and […]
The new Labour government has certainly hit the ground running, a useful lesson in governance to the Conservative MPs currently jockeying for a job which they hope will land them in Number 10 one day. Over the last three weeks a host of new policies, initiatives and quangos have been announced. Of the latter, the […]
