Psychological flaws

The Mail on Sunday reports that the Tories are considering psychometric tests to assess which MPs are suitable to run departments. There is also talk of asking peoples’ secretaries to report on how they react to stress.  Unsurprisingly, the Mail find several MPs who are—anonymously—prepared to rubbish the idea as big brother, control freakery. But what I find most worrying about the whole story is this quote from a “well placed source” defending the scheme:

“The idea is to find out before we get into government which Shadow Ministers are capable of controlling a major department and a big budget – and which ones are not.”