We think it is important to track what the Government is doing in our name, and so we are reproducing below a statement by Baroness Warsi that was published in The Tablet this week.

You will remember that Baroness Warsi is the rather elaborately titled "Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister for Faith and Communities."

You will also remember that she is not an elected Government Minister. There is absolutely no evidence that a post of "Minister for Faith" is wanted or necessary. On the contrary, recent research showed that 71% of Briton's do not want religion and politics to mix and they don't want religious leaders involved in policy-making.

All this talk of Britain being a Christian nation is a fantasy employed by Baroness Warsi and other pious politicians to push forward their own religious agendas.

Warsi says that she thinks it is important for all religions to respect each other and for atheists to respect religions. That's fair enough, but then she goes on to make the familiar claim that religion is under attack and that there are "increasing movements to drive faith from the public square". As usual no convincing evidence is brought forward to support this.

We know that the Government has been at loggerheads with religious bodies on a number of issues in recent years, and we suspect that Baroness Warsi's "Minister for Faith" role has been invented to appease them. She has already had meetings with the Pope, the Archbishops of Westminster and Canterbury and has signed a pact with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation assuring them that that Britain will co-operate on issues of "religious freedom" (a concept that has not been defined, but takes on a sinister hue in relation to the OIC).

Although the Baroness's job may merely be to flatter "faith leaders" with the impression that they are being listened to, we fear such an enthusiast for religious power in politics may still manage to cause irreparable damage before the post is quietly abandoned.

It is always dangerous for governments to become entangled with religions, especially if Baroness Warsi makes extravagant promises to them which are then reneged on in Parliament. The religious leaders will eventually realise that they've been taken for a ride, and their hostility will increase.

It is also ridiculous to invite selected "faith representatives" to Downing Street when such people have constantly been shown not to truly represent the constituencies they claim as their own. They should stop such jamborees and try to get a better cross-section of opinion from people who regard themselves as "of faith". Few of them are the social conservatives that their leaders might have us think.

Where we support Baroness Warsi is in the urgent need to protect religious minorities that are being persecuted by states around the world. (But that does not include Britain– or just about anywhere in Europe).

She manages, in the statement below, to find one country that persecutes Muslims (The Muslim Rohingyas in Burma who are severely mistreated by the Buddhist regime) but she fails to mention that the overwhelming amount of persecution of Christians comes in the main from her own religion, Islam, and in her country of origin, Pakistan.

We hope she will not conveniently try to overlook what I am sure is a painful truth for her – the widespread persecution of Christian minorities in places like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Philippines is by Muslims.

We will be keeping a close eye on this, particularly given her anxiety to align the UK with the OIC.

Here is what Baroness Warsi wrote in The Tablet: