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18 June 2014 / Dr Jon Robins
Issue: 7611 / Categories: Opinion
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A policy turkey?

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Jon Robins laments Grayling’s latest failing

I was beginning to tire of all those personal attacks on Chris Grayling (especially, lawyers who seem to believe that the Lord Chancellor’s greatest deficiency is his lack of a legal qualification) and then along came SARAH.

SARAH is the perfectly charming name for the latest political broadside against the dread “compo culture”. For the uninitiated, it stands for the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill and was revealed in the Queen’s Speech—or for short the “Heroism Bill” which is even more daft than its risible acronym.

This is how our Lord Chancellor introduced his proposals in an article for the ConservativeHome blog: “SARAH has taken a while to bring to the fore…She’s been a while in the making.” But she would “finally slay much of the ‘elf and safety and jobsworth culture that holds back so much of our society”, he promised.

Grayling & Letwin love child

A less kind critic, the self-described policy wonk Richard Dunstan, memorably damned SARAH as “a policy turkey...the gallinaceous

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