Podcasts Culture The Reith Lectures Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy

Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy

Published: Nov. 30, 1983, 9 a.m.

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Former Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, Sir Douglas Wass explores the concept of authority in his series 'Government and the Governed'.

In his fourth Reith Lecture entitled 'Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy', Sir Douglas Wass asks how effective Parliament is at exercising today the functions of supervision and control which the 17th-century reformers allotted to it.

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