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

Labour said seeking to appoint Orlando Fraser ignored due process and showed Tories looking after their own'

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.