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I was intrigued by the mention of news agencies not talking about the impact of policy after it is passed— only before or during its passage through the Commons.

I like reading The Guardian, but I realised it does this too. I read about the impact of policies a day after Starmer has announced them, but never really in retrospect. There is a lack of scrutiny there in the short-term.

The civil service section bored me.

However, I am intrigued by the beginning of the chapter on the press. I knew about Murdoch and Blair, but I didn’t know that the relationship between press and politician went so far back and still continued today, e.g. the sacking of Greig, The Mail editor, after being critical of Johnson…

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