Giving evidence to members of the Home Affairs Select Committee at the Houses of Parliament, London in 2016. Press Association Archive. All rights reserved.
Rosemary Bechler (RB): David, what prompted you to write your detailed and lengthy critique of the Home Affairs Committee’s Report on anti-semitism, which you accuse of being a ‘partisan party political polemic’... how did you get involved?
David Plank (DP): Nothing in my background would necessarily have led to an interest in this area. My professional background is in local authorities, in “social services” as it was then. Since retirement, amongst other things, I have written three reports for The Cambridge Commons, as co-author with Stuart Weir and Deborah Padfield of the initial Cambridge Fairness Review Report , and as author of two further reports in the Fairness Review on social care. I am angry about the way events are going and the destruction, and I use that word calmly, of social care in our country. Since I retired in 2002, and especially in recent years, I have been involved in the Labour Party. But why this issue?
