The government, advised through the Privy Council by John Prescott and Margaret Beckett, has scuppered the chances of its own cowboy taskforce's proposals almost before they have been published, by blocking the Chartered Institute of Building's bid to change its name to Chartered Institute of Construction. At a stroke, the Privy Council has condemned CIOB members to remain in the "cowboy" sector, trapped there as chartered "builders".
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