One thing that I have been saying for a long time is that the problem of making laws by ministerial decree is that it makes them far more open to corruption. I don’t necessarily mean corruption in the sense of people enriching themselves (though that may have happened!)…
https://twitter.com/dpjhodges/status/1410197631096266758
… I mean the banality of everyday corruption. The evidence with the Covid regulations is how many times exceptions seems to have been made for “friends of the government”. The exception for grouse shooting, for foreign travel to buy a property, the exception now to…
the self isolation rules for (quite literally) big business people. The worry I have always had is not the exceptions we know about but the ones we don’t, how many times did someone knock on the door or send a WhatsApp message and get a change to the law?
If Parliament does not scrutinise new laws the government does not have to account for them, and this is bound to happen. Banal (for many) but eventually it adds up. As I said in @prospect_uk prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/adam-wa… 
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