Byrne: Maude is the UK’s ‘most expensive butcher’

Liam Byrne, shadow Cabinet Office minister, comments on the public administration committee report on the bonfire of the quangos:

“The committee appears to confirm that Francis Maude is now Britain’s most expensive butcher.

“Labour wants to see fewer quangos and savings made. But now we know that the Tory-led government has handled this so badly that any savings have gone up in smoke. It’s no wonder the select committee says the government’s so called bonfire of the quangos has been ‘botched’.”