It is all very well for the government to cut taxes but not if huge sums are squandered on bureaucracy, mismanagement, low productivity, outdated working practices, warped priorities and daft work projects.
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Few things offend the British sense of fair play more than the bending of rules to fix a result. Yet the Commons privileges committee investigating whether Boris Johnson is doing just that.