John says that giving the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Ministerial Code (Lord Geidt) the power to do independent investigations would help make our democracy more robust and our politicians more trusted.
Article written by Russell Lynch and posted on The Daily Telegraph Website Scribbled on a whiteboard in Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng’s Victoria office is a lengthy list of tasks which one departmental wag labelled the “Unblocking List”. Four months on from taking over the brief, the minister has ticked off…
Too often, I get reminders that the water near Uphill Slipway has been classified as ‘poor’. They’re usually from ‘Surfers Against Sewage’, although I doubt any of us has ever seen anyone surfing a breaker near the marina! But they’re still making an important point because, after bouts of heavy rain, Wessex…