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Opinion: A new direction for choice

“What’s a nice guy like you doing with a bunch of Tories?” one journalist asked me as I discussed the Barriers to Choice Review.

“You see, I’m a Liberal Democrat,” I explained…

The truth is that this was not a coalition problem.  It was a problem about the word ‘choice’.

My task as an independent reviewer, appointed by the Cabinet Office and the Treasury, was to find out how people used the choices they have been given in schools, hospitals, social care and so on – especially disadvantaged people.

But the word ‘choice’ itself divides people, even those who might otherwise agree on pretty …

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  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 19th May - 10:56pm
    Same goes towards investigating phone hacking.
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    It's not all that bad if the Sun don't do a full page apology in this pretty much none story. I'm not an anarcho capitalist...
  • User AvatarCllr Mark Wright 19th May - 10:44pm
    If only we could have some l kind of judge-led inquiry into media lies that could come up with some kind of solution to this...
  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 19th May - 10:33pm
    I think we can and should become a more equal world, my point was to say I don't think there is anything wrong with making...
  • User AvatarDavid Evans 19th May - 9:56pm
    "... judging by the lack of internal criticism of Clegg and co by their grassroots activists." Well that seems to sum up perfectly how much...