In the week that the House of Commons has massively and specifically legislated to keep the Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords, the hot tip to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury is the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani. In January, one of her Desert Island Discs was Black Box's Ride on Time. That'll do nicely.
She arrived in Britain as a 14-year-old refugee from her native Iran. Yet her father had succeeded her maternal grandfather, his father-in-law, as a bishop, and it does not get any more old school C of E than that. The perfect combination? People seem to be beginning to think so.
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