By Paul Goodman
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In February, Kris Hopkins and Lord Janner, the co-Chairman of the putative group, resigned in protest at the proposed engagement of IEngage as its secretariat.
A few days later, a motion proposed at a meeting of the group to drop IEngage failed by a single vote. Instead, its co-Chairmen – Sir Peter Bottomley, Simon Hughes and Jack Straw – were tasked with commissioning a report into IEngage.
Yesterday evening, the group met again, and the Parliamentarians present voted to dispense with the services of IEngage by the whomping majority of some 60 votes to 2.
I have previously written about IEngage in detail on this site, as has Andrew Gilligan at the Daily Telegraph, as has Harry's Place.
Now that IEngage has been dispensed with, the group can hopefully move on to draw up an action plan in relation to examing anti-Muslim bigotry and prejudice.
For what it's worth, I think that it now looks for an outside expert to act as a secretariat (as Allen recommends). I've previously argued that the DCLG Select Committee should conduct an investigation.