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Mr Gove must now hammer the final nail into Grayling’s legacy – and abolish the Innocence Tax

February 2, 2016 thesecretbarrister Bad Law, Legal Aid, Politics

Last week, David Cameron offered a masterclass in how to employ a dead cat to maximum effect. A political tactic chiselled from the wisdom of Lynton Crosby – the Snarf to Cameron’s Liono, to maintain the theme – the Dead Cat postulates that, when events are going against you, you throw a dead cat on…

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