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Why Doesn't Westminster Work?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

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The Role of MPs in Parliament

In the private sector leaders are being given lots of decisions to make because there is similar risk aversion from lower levels. It's fair to say we have been living through particularly unusual times turbulent political times. And that necessarily affects the ability of the people at the centre at all to do their jobs. So we've touched a couple of times on Parliament and let's work our way I think today through the various institutions of government, starting with Parliament. How do you think we should be trying to think about the incentives there are on MPs when they're in Parliament doing their jobs? Yeah, that's a huge question. I'll give that forward.

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