In fairness, and assuming that we are thinking of the same book, it’s well worth reading & he covered an awful lot more than governments passing laws without providing the necessary means to enforce them to create the illusion of real action

Better than watching the current broadcast on the BBC News channel which seems to have been taken over by Gibb’s GB News & Farage N.

Aww bless her, she’s just too young to remember Grayling isn’t she?
Who can forget his savage deskilling of the prison service & privatisation of the probation service (the disastrous consequences of which weren’t just predictable but predicted)
All this in just a few short years as minister

In fairness I think it has to be said that Grayling had a good crack at screwing up as much of the country as possible before any Brexit vote

Indeed
This graph showing 1. prison staff numbers and 2. Experienced prison staff numbers against time pretty much says everything anyone needs to know, apart from the point that it totally fails to mention, ie the woeful privatisation of the probation service.
All the work of Grayling C.

Reeves and Labour walked into Jezza Hunt’s pre election trap. Extracting themselves from it is long overdue.

A good starting point for anyone who wants to look at this in more depth is, I suspect*, right here @cwinstanley.bsky.social

* I say suspect because I’ve seen the author speak and that persuaded me to buy the book…but I have not yet read it.😳

Timetable in table format