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Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The Politics of Oversight
Is there enough political desire to have an oversight of what people do after they leave government? I don't know if the good chaps thing was ever real, but it does always feel slightly golden agey. It's difficult to see how you wouldn't want a committee of MPs deciding what jobs MPs got afterwards - that creates all kinds of conflicts of interest. So, and generally, the reason that so many bodies have kind of mushroomed over the past few decades is because in a whole range of fields, politicians seem to be reluctant to actually exercise day to day power over vast amounts of stuff. But again, you do ultimately have to, if you have a system where politicians are going to
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