Panorama has learned that over the last decade there have been almost 14, 000 cases of prisoners leaving open jails without permission.

BBC: 'Risk' from open prison criminals

At the moment anyone can open up an estate agency without any qualifications or permission from any official body.

BBC: Estate agents 'need regulating'

Government officials say this will mean free schools - and any other state-funded school - can open "in almost any building for a year without needing planning permission".

BBC: Education & Family

They reluctantly gave debt authority to Congress, and certainly did not issue vague open-ended powers for any branch of government to accrue unto itself the right to borrow without congressional permission.

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