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Why are Russell Group universities opposing FoI?

Top universities think laws to encourage transparency and accountability are “unfair”.

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The Freedom of Information (FoI) Act may sound like a piece of boring and bureaucratic legislation, but it is the reason the MPs expenses scandal came to light, and the reason we know about cracks in the nuclear reactor at Hinkley point B, the cover-up of Cyril Smith MP's child sex abuses, and the extent of UK civil servants pushing arms sales to dictators and human rights abusers.