The leading candidate to become the new chair of the Charity Commission has told MPs he will not allow the regulator to be dragged into media- and government-led “culture wars” – and would even intervene to defend a charity that he felt had been unfairly treated.
Orlando Fraser, a onetime Tory parliamentary candidate with links to a rightwing thinktank, has been selected as the government’s choice to run the watchdog. On Thursday he defended himself against criticism that he was a political appointee, saying he was no longer in the Tory party or even a Conservative.
