Robust debate, not intimidation: May elections

Chair of the Committee, Lord Evans, blogs about the importance of the upcoming local elections being free from intimidation.
Chair of the Committee, Lord Evans, blogs about the importance of the upcoming local elections being free from intimidation.
Lord Evans, Chair of the Committee in Standards in Public Life, outlines how democracy is threatened by the intimidation of MPs and public officials.
In this blog, committee member Jane Ramsey discusses progress on the important recommendations made by the Committee last December in its report on Intimidation in Public Life.
...individuals are pressured to withdraw from debate or even step down. As an independent committee, our job is to advise the prime minister and make recommendations grounded in the best...