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‘Politicians work in a fishbowl environment:’ MPs should talk about scaling back the role of officers of Parliament, says Savoie

It’s the job of Parliament to hold parliamentarians to account, not officers of Parliament, says Donald Savoie. He also says cabinet minsters should be allowed to hire their own chiefs of staff, social media is destroying the credibility of parliamentary institutions, and politicians need to put a plug in the personal insults. Democracy is at stake.

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