‘Old Boys Club’ rules  

They still don't get it. PASC, the Select Committee on which I serve, expressed 'serious concerns' about the appointment of Lord Lang as chair of the committee that oversees the appointments of former ministers and civil servants to business appointments. Lang is a former cabinet minister with many business interests. There was a spot of bother with one   Lang this week rejected our criticisms of his appointment in the magazine Civil Service World. He is not the independent new broom required; he is part of the parliamentary tribe that thinks it's reasonable to have a clutch of jobs when ministerial life ends. Lang is a director of Marsh and McLennan since 1997 Lord Lang was sued in 2004 'accused of orchestrating a massive fraud against customers.' Bloomberg reported on 13th of this month that the company 'will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit by investors who said they had lost...