Who Really Runs Britain? : The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS

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‘Outsourcing’ – when will the horror stories stop coming?Every year the government gives private companies like G4S, Serco, Capita and ATOS £80 billion of taxpayers’ money to handle some of our most sensitive and important services – but where is their transparency?Immigration is perhaps the most challenging and divisive issue of our time – so why has our government abdicated responsibility?As privatisation looms over an NHS in crisis, how do we hold these companies to account?Now, White speaks to campaigners, Whitehall insiders – and the companies themselves. Who Really Runs Britain? is a shocking compendium of what happens when outsourcing goes wrong – and what we do now.