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BRITISH parliamentary democracy is in such a poor state that Dr Hannah White — a very mainstream figure, a former Commons clerk, one-time secretary to the committee on standards in public life, and current head of super-respectable think tank the Institute for Government — thinks Parliament burning to the ground is probably the best hope for reform.
White’s recent book, Held in Contempt: What’s Wrong with the House of Commons, published this year, looks at what’s wrong with the processes of government.
Her think tank takes what you might think of as a technocratic rather than a “political” approach — although of course technocracy is itself a kind of “sensible centrist” politics. It’s not the political approach I favour, but she and it are on the ball, even if I don’t always agree with the game they play.
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