The Spectator

Zero tolerance for Tory sleaze

The Spectator on why there should be zero tolerance for sleaze

issue 14 June 2008

‘What gets me,’ said David Cameron in a speech to the CBI last November, ‘is the deliberate extravagance committed by the people at the top of the government machine, the administrators and managers and quangocrats who administer public money.’ He went on to name Home Office officials who had blown £800,000 on taxis in a year, the MoD, which spend £2.3

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