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Central government

Ministers, parliament and the right to know

Pages 25-29 | Published online: 07 Jan 2009
 

Recent leaks and prosecutions have underlined the obsessive secrecy of the British political establishment, which inhibits at every turn the dissemination even of the sort of information which has no connection with security or confidentiality, and to which every citizen should have a right if they want it. Members of Parliament are best placed to break down the barriers, but even they are faced with all kinds of unnecessary and irrelevant obstacles.

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