Legal equality duty for public services should be scrapped, says Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch says scrapping the duty would let public services focus on core priorities instead of legal challenges and diversity training.
- On Tuesday, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch will announce plans to scrap the Public Sector Equality Duty in a major speech, arguing the duty has been used to promote "dangerous and divisive agendas."
- Mrs Badenoch argues the duty has "become a minefield that exposes almost every significant public decision to legal challenge," citing court rulings where prison officials breached their duty affecting Muslims convicted of Islamic terrorism.
- Introduced in 2010, the PSED requires public bodies to "advance equality of opportunity between people who share and people who do not share a relevant protected characteristic," with organizations facing numerous legal challenges since its inception.
- Liberal Democrat Equalities Spokesperson Marie Goldman called the proposal "a desperate attempt to fan the flames of culture war politics," while Reform UK dismissed it as "classic Conservative politics: too little, too late, and nowhere near enough."
- The Labour government is preparing a new strategy emphasizing socio-economic background, as Conservatives position themselves between Labour's strengthened equality protections and Reform UK's push to repeal the entire Equality Act.
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Kemi Badenoch vows to rid Britain of 'identity politics' with equality laws overhaul
Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch will vow to get rid of "identity politics" in British public life in an equality laws overhaul. Later today the Tory leader will outline her plans to abandon rules requiring public servants, such as police, nurses and teachers, to consider equality issues as part of their daily work. She will say the party will dismantle the public sector equality duty, a legal requirement which requires all public entities…
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