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Bearly Politics

Confidence Without Competence

What Reform UK’s fake scandal over a recruitment framework reveals about their Trumpian turn - and their governing unfitness.

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Jun 05, 2025
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Public procurement isn't sexy.

I work with it tangentially in my day job when I need to procure a digital service or product (hello G-Cloud 14), and I always - always - rely on a procurement service to guide me through it.

This isn't an accident. Procurement is deliberately obscure and technical - it's meant to be. It's the Brussels sprouts of government…

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