He said: “In my time in government, I saw organised interests, legal duties, regulations, arm’s-length bodies, consultations, all holding (up) part of a process, all holding veto over government decisions.“Lots of those things, taken individually, seem eminently sensible and reasonable, but taken as a whole, they sort of became a giant fatberg clogging up the system and clogging up decision-making.”Mr Ovenden, a former journalist and Labour press officer, quit the Government after a series of derogatory sexual remarks he made about MP Diane Abbott in 2017 were published by ITV News. A Government source said: “Ovenden is right, Whitehall needs...
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