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Coalition’s “transparency trailblazer” Pickles refuses FoI request

The Coalition's self-appointed champion of governmental transparency, Eric Pickles, has been criticised for failing to release information over potentially defamatory comments made about chair of the Electoral Commission, Jenny Watson, who his Department of Community and Local Government (DCLG) accused of building her "career on incompetence" and "milking the taxpayer".

Liam R Thompson ·

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