News
1st July 2026
Director resigns from CDUK
Diverse Diversity Campaign Director Ken Petrie resigned yesterday from his rôle at Christian Democracy UK citing the need to keep the Campaign free from “any ideology other than the honest pursuit of openness and truth” and from potential misunderstanding connected with the term Christian Democracy, which is not widely known outside mainland Europe.
The decision was prompted by CDUK’s Chair joining and becoming active in a right-wing party, which Mr Petrie considered compromised the organisation’s aim of being politically inclusive and could discredit him in relations with parties of the left, including the current government.
It’s one thing to have members from across the political spectrum, but leaders who set the overall tone of an organisation need to be aware of the effect their own affiliation would have on public perception. Most people would have difficulty believing an organisation led by a person with a strong ideology were not a vehicle for that ideology,” he said.
The bill announced in the recent King’s Speech to protect people from abusive so-called therapy is a matter of grave concern to the DDC because it appears likely to cement further Identity Politics definitions into UK law, thus preventing honest exploration and genuine medical assistance in a field not currently understood outside the phenomenoloy of its outward appearance. The DDC position on the issue of “Conversion Therapy” is that genuine talking therapies are always exploratory rather than prescriptive and the real problem is less the subject under discussion than the intentions of the people addressing it. Failure to get such a bill right in promoting understanding the real nature of a person’s perceptions rather than politically-determined belief-systems risks subjecting individual freedom to political control rather than genuine enquiry and could in a few cases even prove as harmful as the evil it is intended to prevent. Society needs to avoid such misguided attempts to help.
Regulation of all counsellors and psychotherapists would ensure abusive practices of all sorts cannot hide behind the label of therapy and not just those seeking to undermine a person’s sense of self, while allowing genuine exploration by those qualified to study underlying causes and appropriate treatment for all conditions.