Another of the unelected joins BERR

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The Government announced early this morning that the appointment of the Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank Mervyn Davies as trade minister in the Business department (BERR), to help the Government respond to the banking crisis (Telegraph).

He will be made a Peer and becomes the latest BERR Minister to hail from beyond the elected House of Commons.

Before the Business Committee this morning Lord Mandelson of Hartlepool and Foy defended GB's latest unelected appointee saying

"I don’t think we should deny ourselves access to the talent pool of the Lords."

 Surely as Davies is being made a Peer in order to join the Government (as was Peter Mandelson), the Business Secretary is himself denying our Government access to the existing talent pool in the Lords.