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UK law is masking corruption. Why is the government delaying its reform?

Law professor Elspeth Berry explains the loopholes that have let faceless ‘partnership’ firms get away with fraud for years

UK law is masking corruption. Why is the government delaying its reform?
Boris Johnson's government is failing to tackle criminal wrongdoing facilitated by UK-registered corporate bodies
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Far too many pressing reforms to UK law are agreed in principle by the government but made subject to the weasel words ‘when Parliamentary time allows’.

The result is significant delay in enacting legislation even when the government itself admits that it is needed.

One such area of legislation concerns the proposed reforms to force businesses registered in the UK to become more transparent.