A former colleague of Cummings was on Andrew Marr this morning. He was explaining how Johnson likes to get things done quickly and how when he was elected Mayor of London he thought that County Hall moved far too slowly.
Getting rid of the regulators is Johnson's way of speeding things up. The problem is that when we get rid of regulators sometimes there can be dreadful consequences eg the Herald of Free Enterprise and the Marchioness disaster. The former was in 1987 and the latter in 1989. I suspect that many people will have forgotten them and even more people are far too young to know about them.
National treasures. Who would you choose?


