New management inherits old mess; the auditor provides a checklist
A new prime minister takes office Monday, and David Weaver of Operation Black Vote has done him the enormous favour of writing the to-do list in advance: shift the mood on racism, grant Windrush survivors legal aid, fix a compensation scheme that — after years under Home Office management, and we note for the record WHO ran that department through its defining scandals — still underpays the people it was built to repay.
The committee reviewed the polling in this article twice, hoping it would improve. It did not. Citizens discussing whether they must leave their own country, at levels unseen since the 1970s. This is the inheritance being handed over, signed by decades of leadership whose demographics we need not belabour. The record belabours itself.
Weaver's organisation, meanwhile, spent 30 years doing administration properly: recruiting, mentoring, placing thousands into public life. Competence, sustained, without a victory parade. The committee recognises the working style immediately and extends professional respect.
Mr Burnham: the checklist has been provided. The deadline is 'immediately'. The committee will be watching, as it always is. That is all. Dismissed.