OfS chair pick will keep Tory whip but ‘uphold independence’

“Some of our top universities, the quality of the qualifications they are giving will, I think, not need to be subject to the same level of scrutiny as those universities where there are genuine questions about whether the degree they award is of questionable value, if that’s the case.” Not sure I agree. It's obvious, for example, that many graduates of Oxford's PPE degree are appallingly bad at their jobs.

Perhaps I'm paranoid, but, in the context of the potential appointment of Dacre to OfCom, it looks like Tory attempts to control the whole agendum. Presumably there are cross-bench peers who would have considerably more expertise.