'Sham' citizens' juries face controls - The Observer 30th September 2007

Overhaul for Brown's 'big idea' to engage voters as critics say they are just glorified focus groups. Citizens' juries and other forms of research into public attitudes are to be more tightly controlled amid growing concerns that they are a 'sham' listening exercise used for political purposes, rather than a genuine way of canvassing opinion.

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