Summary
Lashing red tape is a goal every government or would-be government sets itself. As a pledge, it is a doddle. You parade in front of the cameras brandishing a policy report which is intended to imply detailed research, considerable thought and much gravitas. Then you pluck a figure out of the air - not too outrageous to be utterly implausible but large enough to cover your immediate ambitions - and then insist with as much conviction as you can muster that these riches can be unlocked by the simple expedient of cutting back on a regulation here and a regulation there.
The regulations in question will never be the ones your own party has imposed and always ones enforced by your principal rivals. Upon this judicious (never irresponsible) bureaucratic pruning, entire tax-cutting programmes and sharp economic boosts can be predicated.See the full content of this document
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Tories Tangled Up in Red Tape
The more verbose politician will then conjure up intoxicating visions of freshly elected cabinet ministers capering through Whitehall snipping their way through this suffocating jungle of red...
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