THE recent revelation made under Freedom of Information laws that public servants charged £1.5bn of expenses to taxpayer- funded credit cards despite David Cameron’s pledge to end the practice surely shows the FOI laws serve a useful purpose.
Former prime minister Tony Blair says he believes the law that his government introduced was wrong. Mr Blair is wrong.
The FOI act needs strengthening, on the US and Swedish models Secondly I find myself in agreement with former prime minister Gordon Brown when he invokes Britain’s Olympic medal success as an argument against Scottish independence.
A break-up would mean more taxes for Scotland. The Tories would do well to remember if they had gained seats in Scotland and the far north of England there would not be a Tory/Liberal coalition.
Richard J Kidd, Danegeld Close, Andover.
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