True transparency comes from making everything easily accessible and understandable. When I was elected, as a Romford councillor in May last year, I started publishing every payslip I receive.
It’s welcome that we’re investing much more in services. But we need to tackle the causes too.
Even worse is the politicisation of the Speaker’s Chair. The impartiality of Britain’s Speaker was, like the impartiality of its monarch, a given.
It’s always the Implementation Period, but never Christmas.