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Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS Paperback – 6 Jul 2017

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications (6 July 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1786070669
  • ISBN-13: 978-1786070661
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 2.6 x 13 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars 6 customer reviews
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 339,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[A] powerful account of the impact of the privatisation of public services…provides a timely and important analysis of this often overlooked feature of public life.

(Evening Standard)

This is a must read…It punctures the myth that the private sector is better at delivering public service.

(Dame Margaret Hodge MP)

The takeover of government activity by a cartel of unaccountable corporations is a major shift in the way Britain works. Alan White shines a light into this murky world. Everyone is affected by the shadow state. Everyone should read Shadow State.

(Andy Slaughter MP, Shadow Minister for Human Rights)

‘In February 2014 the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee published a devastating report on the way in which public services were contracted out to the private sector... Alan White’s well-researched book Shadow State, provides many examples that prove the Committee’s case, and will, I hope, act as an urgently needed call for action, particularly to improve the standard of contracting throughout Whitehall.’

(Lord Ramsbotham, former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales)

Readable and well ordered.

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About the Author

Alan White is News Editor at BuzzFeed UK. He has won the Royal Television Society Award for Scoop of the Year and been shortlisted for a British Journalism Award for Investigation of the Year. Prior to joining BuzzFeed his work appeared in the Observer, TLS, Private Eye and the Sunday Express. His series of articles, ‘The Shadow State’, ran on the New Statesman website and were amongst its most read pieces that year.



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