Two prominent Bristol MPs have called on the Society of Merchant Venturers to disband, calling them an ‘unaccountable, undemocratic network’.
Thangam Debbonaire, the MP whose constituency includes the Merchants’ headquarters in Clifton, said the organisation should ‘not be running schools in our city’, and said the Society had ‘no place in a modern, multicultural Bristol’.
The new Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers said he was ‘surprised and disappointed’ by the Bristol West MP’s comments.
