Bill ‘a threat to democracy’, parliament rally told

Agricultural workers, actors, human rights experts and members of the House of Lords joined a rally outside Parliament this week to protest against the government’s Public Bodies Bill. Lord Hunt, who is leading opposition to the bill in the Lords, told the gathering on Wednesday (9 February) that bill was “a threat to our democracy”. His fundamental objection is that it gives too much power to individual ministers to abolish organisations by parliamentary order.