The Guardian: ‘You can’t pretend it doesn’t matter’: Johnson urged not to scrap Lord Geidt’s role

This article was written by Jamie Grierson and originally published in The Guardian. The government’s former anti-corruption champion has said it would be “quite a big mistake” for Boris Johnson to scrap the ethics adviser role after the resignation of Lord Geidt. The prime minister’s official spokesperson said on Thursday…

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The Telegraph: Don’t hand rail back to a Fat Controller; The Great British Railways quango will be outsized, powerful, intrusive and deter choice. Better to put it on a diet

Post-pandemic, lots of us are back using trains for leisure travel, and rail freight has kept going too. But business journeys are still a fraction of their pre-Covid levels, and few will shed a tear if we don’t have to commute so much in future either. Which is why the…

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