MP: we need to ‘chip away’ at Catholic schools

A recording of an MP discussing how to end Catholic education in Scotland has been condemned as “chilling” by a bishops’ conference official.

According to a report in the Scottish Catholic Observer, remarks by Tommy Sheppard, the MP for Edinburgh East, have emerged from a Humanist Society Scotland (HSS) fringe event at last year’s SNP conference, at which he said he wanted to introduce a secular education system.

The event was held to promote the HHS’s “Enlighten Up” campaign, which aims to end mandatory religious representation on local authority education committees.