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Is the UK government becoming authoritarian?

Ruth Tarrant

13th January 2016

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Lord Kerslake, the former civil servant and Cabinet Secretary who was "ousted" in the 2014 Cabinet reshuffle, is now a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, warned yesterday in the Lords that he thinks Cameron's government is increasingly authoritarian.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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