With Britain gliding down the index of transparency and voters angry, the impending election costs fails to address the vital issue: the poisoning of political donations
With grimly appropriate timing, the annual Transparency International (TI) corruption assumptions index lands today. The information is not good. The globe is growing more corrupt as it ends up being less democratic. When it comes to us, Britain is gliding downwards on the assumptions scale, seen at its lowest until now for probity.Once ranked in
the leading 10, at 8th place in 2017, we are now in 20th setting. The UK’s rating for corruption in government and public workplace has aggravated according to this year’s Economist Intelligence Unit specialist analysis. This index was sampled in between January 2024 and September 2025– prior to the present Peter Mandelson rumor– but it absorbs the last decade of misgovernance, illegal Brexit electioneering and Boris Johnson misdeeds. The opportunities are that next year’s rankings will certainly take us further down this slimy slope. Unless, that is, radical and punctual action is required to put up guardrails and close technicalities to secure versus corruption of all kinds.Polly Toynbee is a
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