LoginRethinking the 'red tape' attitude
Public protection has been slowly ripped to pieces by systematic cuts to ‘red tape’.
Posted 15 January 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Legal and Policy|National
ANALYSIS: Drawing on the lessons of Grenfell and the evolution of 'better regulation', this article challenges decades of anti-regulation rhetoric and argues that dismissing enforcement as 'red tape' has weakened consumer protection and public safety.
On the morning that Grenfell Tower burnt, I was speaking at an event at Liverpool University on ‘emotions and politics’. There I spoke about the contempt – the virtual hatred – with which the term ‘regulation’ had come to be used by politicians, the media, and more popularly.
For almost three decades, the work of regulators – not least in terms of enforcement – has been undermined by poli...
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