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‘Should be the end of the proposal’: Queen’s Speech reprieve for SFO as abolition move recedes

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22 June 2017
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Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative manifesto pledge to incorporate the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the National Crime Agency (NCA) was absent from the Queen’s Speech yesterday (21 June 2017), with lawyers welcoming the prospect it could be shelved.

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