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Home » Blog » UK policy » Won’t somebody think of the democracy?

Won’t somebody think of the democracy?

2 May 2019 by Heather Burns

I wrote for PublicTechnology about the Minister for Health exploiting technology fears to run roughshod over consultative democracy and the rule of law.

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