We must curb freedom of information law, says Sir Cover-Up: Jeremy Heywood argues for new restrictions that will stop government incompetence being exposed

‘The most senior civil servant has argued for new restrictions on a law used to expose government waste and incompetence.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood claimed the Freedom of Information Act was making officials ‘less candid’ with ministers in their advice – for fear it would be made public.

Sir Jeremy was nicknamed ‘Sir Cover-Up’ for his role in blocking the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War from seeing letters and records of phone calls between Tony Blair and George Bush.

Yesterday he argued there were ‘one or two issues’ with the FoI law, which helped expose the MPs’ expenses scandals and dozens of other revelations about the activities of the state.’

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