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Melanie McDonagh

OPINION - Citizens’ Assemblies are no way to run the National Gallery

A view of the main entrance of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square (John Stillwell/PA) - (PA Archive)

In general, if someone mentions the words Citizen’s Assembly, just assume the worst. Whatever it is, it will be a buck-passing, backside-covering, partisan and annoying exercise in an institution – usually a government – trying to get through whatever measures it had in mind to begin with, only with the supposed sanction of the public.

But now we’ve got something even worse – a non-government public body doing exactly the same thing.

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