camerons government has worrying authoritarian streak - ex civil service boss /

Published at 2016-01-11 21:19:24

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Bob Kerslake says measures including the trade union bill indicate government is ‘not comfortable with scrutiny and challenge’David Cameron leads a government with a “worryingly authoritarian streak” that is seeking to undermine the Labour party’s funding arrangements through the trade union bill,a former head of the civil service has said.
Writing in a Guardian article, Bob Kerslake made one of the strongest attacks on a government by a retired senior civil servant, and saying the bill marked a “partisan and disproportionate” attempt to improve the position of the Conservatives at the expense of Labour.
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Source: theguardian.com