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The Seven Deadly Sins of Government, and the system that encourages them

Before I stood for Parliament in 2024, I’d read books by Rory Stewart and Ian Dunt, critical of our sclerotic parliamentary system. And yet, despite those prior warnings, I still find myself repeatedly astounded by the level of dysfunction.
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