Paul Dacre says watering down freedom of information laws will beget public distrust politicians,and civil servants should ‘remember who pays their wages’Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre has called for greater openness in government and lambasted the commission on freedom of information for seeking to restrict transparency.
In a personal submission to the commission separate to that of Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, Dacre said the desire to keep things secret by default was incompatible with the digital age.
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Source: theguardian.com