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Honesty and integrity are too often sacrificed on the altar of self service
Matt Hancock fell short of the standards we expect of our public servants. But he’s far from the only one.
27 June 2021 • 9:30pm
Matt Hancock had to resign as Health Secretary because his actions removed from his authority the legitimacy that political power requires. Having broken the rules he had imposed on others, his authority – to lead the NHS, to decide Covid restrictions, to determine health policies across the board – was shot to pieces.
Rather than quickly moving on, as our political culture and the news cycle tend to do, we should pause for a moment and contemplate this relationship between authority and legitimacy. What is it that makes authority legitimate? And is there enough legitimacy for authority in Britain?