'But recess is supposed to be dull': How political turbulence - that wasn't supposed to exist - has shifted nothing where the majority of the public is concerned

Swaran Singh, former Commissioner for the EHRC, was asked in 2019 to carry out an in-depth review of the way the Conservative Party handled allegations of Islamophobia. 

Though the report landed in 2021, a follow-up to the report was released on Monday.

At certain points Singh commended the Party and the “success” in which it implemented some of the recommendations.

However, it came to one striking conclusion about why certain recommendations from the report were not implemented - it was a “weakness” associated with ‘political turbulence’. 

Specifically, the ‘political turbulence’ of: 

“...three leaders, two CEOs and seven Party Chairs. Each of these changes has had an unavoidable impact on the day-to-day running of the Party and has led to delays in implementing the recommendations.”

A frequent point this page has made since as early as 2021 - and most clearly in May 2022 around the time of the last Queen’s Speech - is that the ‘delays’ highlighted in the report could be translated to almost every fundamental aspect of the ‘day-to-day running’ of our government. 

In this context, the criticisms are a metaphor for virtually every problem facing this government in the run-up to a general election.