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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Tories criticised for choosing ex-party candidate to chair Charity Commission

Orlando Fraser in 2015.
Orlando Fraser in 2015. Photograph: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock

The government has been accused of “looking after their own” after choosing a former Tory party candidate with links to a rightwing thinktank as its preferred candidate for the chair of the charities’ watchdog.

Labour said by seeking to appoint Orlando Fraser, a founding fellow of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), to the chair of the Charity Commission, ministers had ignored due process in favour of another Conservative supporter.

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