Well, I suppose they couldn't get Tony Blair.....

......So, the apparently Catholic Education Service will have to make do with Greg Pope, former Labour MP for Hyndburn.
Greg Pope,  a former Labour MP., with a consistently anti life/pro abortion voting record,  has been appointed deputy Director of the apparently Catholic Education Service.

John Smeaton has assembled Mr. Pope's  'C.V.' ,  see here .

Other bloggers have commented on the whole sorry business including:
Fr. Finigan
Damien Thompson
Mulier Fortis
David Lindsay
Countercultural Father
That the bones you have crushed may thrill