{"id":29222,"date":"2018-02-21T01:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/21\/mps-refuse-to-endorse-former-tory-minister-as-head-of-charity-commission\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:01:06","slug":"mps-refuse-to-endorse-former-tory-minister-as-head-of-charity-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=29222","title":{"rendered":"MPs refuse to endorse former Tory minister as head of Charity Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Committee says Tina Stowell lacks \u2018knowledge or vision\u2019 and questions her independenceA committee of MPs has unanimously refused to endorse the appointment of a former Tory minister as chair of the Charity Commission, with a stinging rebuke to the government for selecting her despite \u201ca complete lack of experience\u201d.With the charitable sector reeling from the Oxfam crisis, the digital, culture, media and sport committee said it could not support the appointment of Lady Stowell because she lacked \u201cany real insight, knowledge or vision\u201d for the job. And in a letter to the culture secretary, Matt Hancock, the committee chair, Damian Collins, raised concerns over her independence and dismissed her claims to be \u201ca veteran outsider\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/feb\/21\/mps-refuse-to-endorse-former-tory-minister-as-head-of-charity-commission\" target=\"_blank\">MPs refuse to endorse former Tory minister as head of Charity Commission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committee says Tina Stowell lacks \u2018knowledge or vision\u2019 and questions her independenceA committee of MPs has unanimously refused to endorse the appointment of a former Tory minister as chair of the Charity Commission, with a stinging rebuke to the government for selecting her despite \u201ca complete lack of experience\u201d.With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}