Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy

The Reith Lectures

• Episode: Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy
• Website: The Reith Lectures
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• Duration: 00:29:10
• Published: 1983-11-30 10:00

Former Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, Sir Douglas Wass explores the concept of authority in his series 'Government and the Governed'. In his fourth Reith Lecture entitled 'Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy', Sir Douglas Wass asks how effective Parliament is at exercising today the functions of supervision and control which the 17th-century reformers allotted to it.