Report: UK Gov't Spends £Millions Lobbying Itself for Bigger, More Intrusive State

Report: UK Gov't Spends £Millions Lobbying Itself for Bigger, More Intrusive State: The British government spends hundreds of millions of pounds a year effectively lobbying itself, a new report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has revealed.

The Sock Doctrine, published Wednesday by the IEA, reveals how the British government, at both a national and a local level, distributes vast amounts of funding on behalf of the taxpayer in order to lobby itself for bigger, more intrusive government.

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