Whistleblowers keep us safe. We can’t allow them to be silenced | Shami Chakraborti

With its proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act, the Law Commission would make it all but impossible for government wrongdoing to be exposedThe Law Commission is an important body with a proud history. Set up in 1965 to provide independent advice to government on law reform, it describes itself as non-political and has often made meticulous recommendations on overlooked but vital areas of the statute book, from criminal and family law to that governing property, trusts and other areas of c