Former ministers who lobby play down Cabinet experience

CCC's Perrin Beatty, a former Tory Cabinet minister, says experience in how government works is much more important.

Cabinet ministers have some of the most access to the levers of government, have arguably the largest network of contacts and can be considered the ultimate insiders, but former ministers who are now lobbyists say it wasn't where they landed in the political chain that helps make them successful ...

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