The Accountability Deficit: How ministers and officials evaded accountability, misled the public and violated democracy during the pandemic

by Molly Kingsley, Arabella Skinner, Ben Kingsley

Written by Molly Kingsley, Arabella Skinner and Ben Kingsley, executive members of the campaigning organisation UsForThem, this book forensically exposes how UK Ministers and senior government officials were repeatedly able to make poor quality policy decisions during the pandemic period with only limited scrutiny and too often with catastrophic consequences for the lives of millions.

The authors have meticulously evidenced how ethics, good governance, truth, integrity and transparency were grossly compromised during the pandemic period, and how these factors and a deficit of accountability created the conditions for what fast became an economic, social, medical, ethical and child safeguarding disaster.

Danny Kruger MP provides a powerfully candid afterword.

317 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 19, 2023

Reviews

[Eve Read]

A comprehensive, yet easy to read, articulation of the government’s dereliction of duty during the Covid crisis. I found myself freshly shocked many times whilst reading this book. A must read for anyone who cares about the sanctity of democracy and ensuring that government is held accountable and carries out adequate cost/benefit analysis, whatever the emergency scenario of the day.