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Is Westminster broken?

Politics from the New Statesman

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The Dangers of Regulation

Grenfell and the sewage crisis were both to do with regulation. But it's not something that when you're in the lobby is very difficult to cover. And then you have a disaster like this that bubbles up at some point, but you feel like you're too late to the story. The layers of power in this country is not just the minister coming in and failing or succeeding. We don't really understand often why things have gone wrong. And we just blame the minister.

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