If you go into a shop to buy Strepsils, you don’t expect to leave with arsenic. If the bottle says shower gel, you don’t expect paint stripper. But in 2019, British democracy doesn’t work quite the same way.
Right now, our public bodies, committees and regulators are sitting on vital information, critical to helping British voters decide who to vote for on 12 December.
Between them, these taxpayer-funded watchdogs have investigated allegations of corruption, foreign interference, electoral fraud, racism, and the sale of voters’ personal information. They involve people at the highest level of politics, and overshadow all of the three main parties.
