Should a seat in the boardroom be based on merit…or gender?

Should companies make board appointments in the interests of shareholders, customers and employees … or in the name of political correctness?
Or is this a necessary way of correcting imbalances in the UK’s senior management structures?

Panellists:

Chair: Ruth Lea, Economist

Janice Atkinson, WomenOn.org, journalist

Godfrey Bloom MEP, member of Gender and Equality Committee, European Parliament

Dr Clare Gerada, Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Jo Fairley, founder, Green and Black’s chocolate

Professor Len Shackleton, Buckingham University and IEA Fellow