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How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn’t by Ian Dunt review – a savage indictment of the status quo
This eye-opening analysis of the British way of governing reveals a system set up for failure
Ian Dunt starts his lacerating analysis of Westminster with an extended case history
- Kathryn Hughes
- The Guardian
It concerns Chris Grayling at the time he became secretary of state for justice in 2012
Having inherited a probation service that was creaking at the seams, he decided to privatise the whole thing, turning over the delicate business of managing ex-offenders to a selection of security firms that had no experience of that kind of work.
The big idea was that they would be incentivised with a…