article_snippet.sent: In the Coalition agreement, the Tories and Lib Dems pledged to roll back Labour’s ‘state intrusion’, promising a bonfire of pointless powers.
article_snippet.sent: Between May 2010 and May 2014 – the latest year for which information is available
article_snippet.sent: Ben Rose, a partner at law firm Hickman & Rose, which carried out the research, said: ‘The law-making machine has become an unstoppable juggernaut.
article_snippet.sent: Josie Appleton, of the Manifesto Club, which campaigns against excessive regulation, said: