Do you have an issue you care about? You should probably be calling for a public inquiry into it, then. Public inquiries have become so popular in British politics that there are currently 25 running at the moment, and barely a week goes by without an MP calling for a new one at Prime Minister’s Questions. Last week MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee announced an inquiry into inquiries, which follows another inquiry into inquiries by the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee last year. That inquiry was in part looking at whether the previous inquiry, held ten years before, had managed to have any lasting impact (it hadn’t, and neither had many of the public inquiries themselves in the interim).

Before you run out of breath, I bring you news of another inquiry into inquiries, this time within government. I understand that the Cabinet Office is also examining........

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