
Who Really Runs Britain?
The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS
By: Alan White
Paperback | 6 January 2017 | Edition Number 1
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Immigration is perhaps the most challenging and divisive issue of our time -- so why has our government abdicated responsibility? As privatisation looms over an NHS in crisis, how do we hold these companies to account? Now, White speaks to campaigners, Whitehall insiders - and the companies themselves.
Who Really Runs Britain? is a shocking compendium of what happens when outsourcing goes wrong - and what we do now.
About the Author
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.
Industry Reviews
`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 *
ISBN: 9781786070661
ISBN-10: 1786070669
Published: 6th January 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher: Oneworld Publications Ltd CONSIGN
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 13.0 x 19.8 x 2.6
Weight (kg): 0.32
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