Borthwick insists his England setup is different amid claims over Jones era

• Danny Care accused Jones regime of being ‘a dictatorship’
• Borthwick hails ‘step forward’ in players sharing opinions

Steve Borthwick has insisted he has nothing to hide about his England setup and believes his players are empowered to speak up after claims from Danny Care that Eddie Jones’s regime was like “living in a dictatorship”.

Borthwick spent more than four years as Jones’s assistant but sought to distance his environment from that of the Australian’s after the former England scrum-half’s portrayal of a toxic culture raised serious questions over the Rugby Football Union’s safeguarding procedures. The World Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward has described it as “astonishing” that Jones’s contract was renewed by the RFU.

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