Was the Bloom review worth waiting for? The jury’s out

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Nearly four years in the making, the Bloom Review attempts to answer the question: “Does government ‘do’ God?” The answer is yes, but not always as well as it could, says Danny Webster. If they want to improve, they need to action the findings - and quickly

The Evangelical Alliance has welcomed the findings of the Bloom Review, an independent review of the government’s engagement with faith, published this week. But as with all such work, there is always more that could have been included – Bloom said that 30,000 words ended up on the cutting room floor – and there are aspects that require careful interrogation of the detail to understand the implication.

The big question now is: What the government will do with it?