Britain’s boom in public inquiries into past disasters
Judges are still trusted to rake over political failures
“Get Britain’s Future Back,” ran the Labour Party’s slogan in opposition. But first, the past. While it works to form a new administration, Sir Keir Starmer’s government has another pressing task: to deal with a workload arising from public inquiries into errors by the British state, some reaching back 50 years. If Sir Keir has his way, they will be more powerful in future.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The dead hand on the state ”
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