It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot

tHe may sound surprising, but the UK government's core programme now appears to be the same as Donald Trump's: the dismantling of the administrative state. There are fewer theatres, but the outcome can be harder to contest. Absurd? Consider the evidence. Become the brutal expulsion of Marcus Bokkank, chairman of the government's Competitive Markets Bureau. […]