Lords inquire into inquiries

And is the cloth of estate to be found on the woolsack?

How effective are statutory public inquiries? The House of Lords has set up a new select committee to find out and it will hear its first witnesses this afternoon.

Oral evidence will be taken from:

• Kate Eves, chair of the inquiry into the mistreatment of detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre in 2017

• Brian Altman KC

• Sir John Saunders, chair o…