Bishops object to Enoch Powell plaque

 The Bishop of Wolverhampton, Dr Clive Gregory, has joined a campaign to stop a plaque being erected in the city to commemorate Enoch Powell.

Dr Gregory, alongside the Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, opposes erecting a plaque for the former Wolverhampton South West MP. He said such a move would be “interpreted as honouring Powell’s racist views”. The city’s civic society will decide soon whether or not to honour Powell who died, aged 85, in February 1998 and delivered his infamous “rivers of blood” speech on immigration to the Birmingham Conservative Association in 1968. Dr Gregory said the city’s harmony “owes nothing” to Mr Powell.