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PUBLIC INQUIRIES

State of failure

When a country cannot get to the truth in real time and must rely on a process years after wards, something has gone very wrong by David Allen Green
ILLUSTRATION BY BETH GOODY

A Martian looking down and taking an interest in British politics would assume that the government was accountable to judges and lawyers at public inquiries, rather than to elected politicians in Westminster.

For it is only a public inquiry that seems to be able to get to the bottom of what goes wrong with policy and administration, and why. In this way, the Inquiries Act 2005 is now afundamental constitutional instrument.

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