control freakery

The leadership has been accused of control freakery, trying to suppress the left, expelling party members unfairly.

Before the pandemic disrupted exams, there was control freakery over how grades were shared out.

“Such control freakery was anathema,” John Fryer, a former labor editor at The Sunday Times, wrote in a recent column.

One source said this was down to “control freakery” on the part of No 10 rather than fears about whether Johnson could be trusted.

One individual aware of events at the time attributed the attempt primarily to "control freakery" by Number 10, rather than a lack of trust in Mr Johnson's ability to keep secrets.