The Conservative Party has released its terms of reference for an indpendent investigation into complaints of Islamophobia - to be chaired by Professor Swaran Singh conservatives.com/investigation
Interesting that it opens by saying the equality and human rights commission has raised the issue, which suggests this may be part of an enforcement agreement with the EHRC 
The EHRC has power to enter into agreements that an organisation Do certain things, including its own independent investigation (one would assume), if it is concerned there have been unlawful acts legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/3/s…
I do not know whether this is part of an agreement or not but given the Muslim Council submitted significant evidence to the commission a few months back, and there was no sense from the PM this would go ahead, I think it is plausible.
If the independent investigation is not up to scratch then the equality and human rights commission can use its more draconian powers such as a full-scale statutory investigation as it has done with the Labour Party
This is what the EHRC have said huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/conserva… which fits with the above
It sounds like a bad choice of chair. If there are concerns from the Muslim community why choose him? Why not use a lawyer with discrimination law experience? Particularly given this is an inquiry about procedure
This is he - no real relevant experience which would make him an appropriate chair for this kind of super sensitive inquiry warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/st…
A fair point too - have never seen terms of reference for an inquiry which puts the thing being inquired into in inverted commas! Talk about passive aggression
