Member

Although I care deeply about this issue, I stress that this amendment is not simply the expression of a personal or individual interest. Concern about the present wording of “fundamental British values” and recommendations for a slightly different formulation were put forward in 2015 in Living with Difference, the report of the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, set out by the Wolff Institute in Cambridge and chaired by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss. It was also a recommendation of two House of Lords Select Committees—I was a member of both—of which the most important was the 2018 report, The Ties That Bind: Citizenship and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts.