by stealth

“We have become a dumping ground for everybody else’s rubbish by stealth,” says a Liberal Democrat councillor in Redcar, Dr Tristan Learoyd.

They are tax rises that have been delivered, in the main, by stealth.

He insisted he did not have a view about whether or not more private sector involvement was the answer and said he did not believe the NHS was being privatised by stealth.

"I understand President Zelenskiy's desire to preserve the young for the future, but the fact is that Russia is mobilising the whole country by stealth," he wrote in the Telegraph newspaper.

The Clippers do not typically hold trade talks under such a microscope, their past pursuits characterized as playing out by stealth instead of online.