Removal Of MPs' Staff From Online Register ‘Will Inevitably Lead To Scandals’

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“The cost of making their identities private is that it's an opening now to corruption.” The names of 2,000 parliamentary staff have been removed from an official register in an “outrageous loss of transparency” that will reduce trust in politics and opens the door to scandals, says Times investigations reporter George Greenwood. George Greenwood was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday, 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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