When Baroness Warsi suddenly resigned last week from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) it was patently clear that her reasons were not as advertised by herself. Ministerial resignations like this, with no warning and no previously expressed public concern about policy, are nearly always a symptom of bad relationships between ministers or a quiet…
In his speech yesterday to mark the tenth anniversary of the Macpherson report, Trevor Phillips – chair of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission – drew attention to the fact that the House of Lords was more ethnically diverse than the House of Commons. Parliament, he argued, was not reflecting changes in British society. “For Parliament to…
