§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to make the elimination of injustice a lawful object of a charity; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MellorNo. Such an objective would be too wide and imprecise; it would be impossible in practice to interpret it in a way consistent with the long established principle that, to be charitable, an organisation's main purpose should not be political.