Since October last year, Robert Flello, formerly the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, has served as chairman of the 150-year-old Catholic Union of Great Britain. For the majority of the time since its inception, it has operated below the radar, continuing with the original aim of its founders in combatting Catholic disability and in its recent history promoting Catholic values in public life. Lately it has made strides towards raising its public profile and with Flello’s appointment they have found somebody who, he says, “shares their commitment to grow the organisation and put it into a position where it was no longer a best-kept secret but something that everybody was aware of”.