The powers behind the thrones
One thing which has come out of the murk of the political underworld in recent years has been the reluctant emergence into the half light of a range of operators - influences, policy formers, kitchen cabinets, lavender notepaper writers, economic gurus and special advisers (such as on ethics, for heaven’s sake) who, whilst unelected to a man or woman, have the ear of the top tiers of the great and the not so good of the Parliamentary green benches. They have probably been there, unnoticed, for many years until the
