In the 1880s, for example, Gladstone came to believe that Ireland -- all of it at that time a part of Britain -- needed to be self-governed, with its own parliament.

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From disaster relief to self-governed planning.

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The Conservatives want the new independent self-regulatory body to be governed by a board which would be set up "without any direction from industry or influence from government".

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The independent self-regulatory body would be governed by an independent board "appointed in a genuinely open, transparent and independent way, without any direction from industry or influence from government".

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Here is an example: one of the orgs cited in this article is run by a bevy of former major health insurer employees and largely governed by major insurers who claim to be advocating transparency on behalf of self-insured employers.

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