On 26 January, an article in The Conversation looks at the background to, and implications of, the resignation of Treasury minister and Cabinet Office minister Lord Agnew, with his scathing rebuke to his government colleagues over COVID business loan fraud. Lord Agnew’s resignation stems from his dissatisfaction with how the Bounce Back Loan Scheme has been handled by government, and called the government’s oversight of the scheme “desperately inadequate … and nothing less than woeful”.