A report into allegations of corruption in a flagship Conservative government project – the ‘free port’ at Teesside – seems unlikely to report until after the next general election, according to those in the know.

For details of the scandal, please see this Vox Political article. The situation was summed up quite well by Commons’ business and trade committee chairman Liam Byrne, when he asked Tory cabinet minister Michael Gove to explain the current situation:

People of the UK have responded to the corruption allegations with their now-habitual mixture of rolling-eyed resentment and dark humour – as evidenced by the response below to Good Law Project head Jolyon Maugham’s assertion that the inquiry into the corruption allegations is unlikely to publish its findings until after the general election:

It is true that Mr Bates vs The Post Office, about the Post Office scandal in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for theft because a faulty and insecure computer system wrongly accused them, has jolted the Tory government into action.

Is reminding the public of these scandals during election years now the only way to get a UK government to combat corruption at all?

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