The Greek and Argentinian examples of the previous chapter showed what can happen when there are no independent statistical organisations to protect the senior statisticians manipulated by government ministers. In this chapter, we look at the establishment of the United Kingdom Statistics Authority (UKSA). Before the establishment of the UKSA in 2008, governments had tended to try to control the production, interpretation and dissemination of official statistics. Ministers took advantage of statisticians ‘cohabiting’ with them, pressuring statisticians to produce numbers congenial to the government. Tony Blair’s Labour government had the unusual policy of giving away powers, including powers over statistics. The UKSA had the formal duty of overseeing the standard of British statistics. We show that this required more than statistical expertise. It needed strategic sensitivity to ensure that its judgments were accepted by ministers and, most importantly, that the Authority retained the trust of the public. Just as the language of manipulators has to be explored in detail, so too does the language of the anti-manipulators. Most surprisingly, we see the Authority opposing the manipulation of statistics by acting as if there was no manipulation to speak of – the word ‘manipulation’ is significantly absent in its documents.