The Tory leader has been talking up her six new peers – leading This Writer to ask: why did Kemi Badenoch send a man who caused a Tory crisis to the Lords?
Among those who have been nominated to be a Conservative Life Peer is Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, who was once forced to quit a role in the Office for Students (OfS) because of his outspoken views.
Badenoch wrote on the ConservativeHome website that her nominees, like Young, were “true radicals, the smart and the very brave”.
Oh, really?
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Was it smart of Young, before being appointed to the OfS, to have called on then-Education Secretary Michael Gove to bring back O-levels and repeal the Equality Act, because “any exam that isn’t “accessible” to a functionally illiterate troglodyte with a mental age of six will be judged to be “elitist” and therefore forbidden by [Harriet] Harman’s Law”?
Was it radical of him to write, in 2012, “Inclusive. It’s one of those ghastly, politically correct words that has survived the demise of New Labour. Schools have got to be “inclusive” these days. That means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the school library (though no Mark Twain) and a Special Educational Needs Department that can cope with everything from Dyslexia to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy”?
Was it brave of him to write an article in a New York men’s magazine recalling an occasion on which he dressed up as a woman in a bid to get into bed with lesbians?
All of these things were used against Young as reasons he should not be in the Office for Students in the week before he quit the role, saying the crisis he had caused meant he had become a distraction.
The House of Lords, as the Second Chamber of Parliament, is supposed to be where experts examine legislation and send it back to the House of Commons with amendments if it is deemed not to be suitable.
What kind of expertise would Toby Young bring to the Upper House?
Source: Six new Tory peers are ‘brave, true radicals’, Kemi Badenoch claims
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Why did Kemi Badenoch send a man who caused a Tory crisis to the Lords?
The Tory leader has been talking up her six new peers – leading This Writer to ask: why did Kemi Badenoch send a man who caused a Tory crisis to the Lords?
Among those who have been nominated to be a Conservative Life Peer is Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, who was once forced to quit a role in the Office for Students (OfS) because of his outspoken views.
Badenoch wrote on the ConservativeHome website that her nominees, like Young, were “true radicals, the smart and the very brave”.
Oh, really?
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Was it smart of Young, before being appointed to the OfS, to have called on then-Education Secretary Michael Gove to bring back O-levels and repeal the Equality Act, because “any exam that isn’t “accessible” to a functionally illiterate troglodyte with a mental age of six will be judged to be “elitist” and therefore forbidden by [Harriet] Harman’s Law”?
Was it radical of him to write, in 2012, “Inclusive. It’s one of those ghastly, politically correct words that has survived the demise of New Labour. Schools have got to be “inclusive” these days. That means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the school library (though no Mark Twain) and a Special Educational Needs Department that can cope with everything from Dyslexia to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy”?
Was it brave of him to write an article in a New York men’s magazine recalling an occasion on which he dressed up as a woman in a bid to get into bed with lesbians?
All of these things were used against Young as reasons he should not be in the Office for Students in the week before he quit the role, saying the crisis he had caused meant he had become a distraction.
The House of Lords, as the Second Chamber of Parliament, is supposed to be where experts examine legislation and send it back to the House of Commons with amendments if it is deemed not to be suitable.
What kind of expertise would Toby Young bring to the Upper House?
Source: Six new Tory peers are ‘brave, true radicals’, Kemi Badenoch claims
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