Along with former Shadow Attorney General, chancellor of the University of Greenwich and Queen’s Counsel, Baroness (Patricia) Scotland can add alderman of the City of London to her roles.The Catholic peer was this month elected to the position – there are 25 aldermen in total – for the Bishopsgate Ward, which includes the Parish of St Mary Moorfields. Baroness Scotland is the first member of an ethnic minority and only the fourth woman in 900 years to be elected to the position, which makes up part of the City of London Corporation. Normally, party politics are kept out of alderman elections, so Baroness Scotland, once a member of a Labour government, is unusual. So why did she put herself forward for the position? One possibility is that, as an alderman, she would be el