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Declining Standards: Has Britain Entered a ‘Post-Nolan Age’?

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AuthorSam Power
Published date01 June 2021
Date01 June 2021
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/20419058211022931
8 POLITICAL INSIGHT • JUNE 2021
In November 2020, Lord Jonathan
Evans, Chair of the Committee on
Standards in Public Life (CSPL),
delivered the Hugh Kay Lecture at
the Institute of Business Ethics. At the
time, a number of examples of political
impropriety had gained varying levels
of traction in the British press. There was
the so-called ‘Westferry Affair’, in which
Housing Minister Robert Jenrick, admitted
Declining Standards:
Has Britain Entered a
‘Post-Nolan Age'?
The Nolan Principles of Public Life were introduced in 1995 amid a
panic about ‘sleaze’ government. With recent scandals engulf‌ing Boris
Johnson and his predecess or David Cameron, Sam Power argues that
the time has come to think again about standards in British politics.
‘apparent bias’ in overturning a planning
application in favour of Conservative
donor Richard Desmond; accusations that
the Towns Fund was used as little more
than an opportunity to offer up ‘pork’ to
Tory marginals; special advisor Dominic
Cummings’ jaunt to Barnard Castle; Priti
Patel’s bullying within the Home Office;
and concerns surrounding a British
‘chumocracy’ profiting from pandemic
procurement.
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