Who Really Runs Britain? by Alan White

Who Really Runs Britain? by Alan White

A shocking compendium of what happens when outsourcing goes wrong the horrifying stories, damning statistics and what we do now

‘[A] powerful account of the impact of the privatisation of public services…provides a timely and important analysis of this often overlooked feature of public life’

* Evening Standard *

‘This is a must read…It punctures the myth that the private sector is better at delivering public service.’

-- Dame Margaret Hodge MP

‘The takeover of government activity by a cartel of unaccountable corporations is a major shift in the way Britain works. Alan White shines a light into this murky world. Everyone is affected by the shadow state. Everyone should read Shadow State.’

-- Andy Slaughter MP, Shadow Minister for Human Rights

‘In February 2014 the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee published a devastating report on the way in which public services were contracted out to the private sector... Alan White’s well-researched book Shadow State, provides many examples that prove the Committee’s case, and will, I hope, act as an urgently needed call for action, particularly to improve the standard of contracting throughout Whitehall.’

-- Lord Ramsbotham, former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales

‘Readable and well ordered.’

* Literary Review *

Alan White is News Editor at BuzzFeed UK. He has won the Royal Television Society Award for Scoop of the Year and been shortlisted for a British Journalism Award for Investigation of the Year. Prior to joining BuzzFeed his work appeared in the Observer, TLS, Private Eye and the Sunday Express. His series of articles, ‘The Shadow State’, ran on the New Statesman website and were amongst its most read pieces that year.

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ISBN 13	9781786070661
ISBN 10	1786070669
Title	Who Really Runs Britain?
Author	Alan White
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oneworld Publications
Year published	2017-07-06
Number of pages	336
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