February 2016

The evening seminar at Somerset House on February 8th 2016 welcomed as its speaker Lord (Bryan) Davies of Oldham, formerly MP for Enfield and Oldham and secretary of the Labour Party until 1997 when he became Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The topic was Social Policy: the Government’s View. Bryan discussed the contrast between his experience of being a teacher responding to Government edicts and later a Government minister issuing them.

Roger Bullock