Badenoch says Labour plans for new equality law is 'ideological dross'

Labour will paralyse public services and hand more power to unaccountable quangos under plans to introduce an equality law, Kemi Badenoch warns in the Mail today.

From next year, the Government will force public authorities to give ‘due regard’ to disparities in income and socio-economic status when making decisions.

This ‘socio-economic duty’ – part of the 2010 Equality Act that has yet to be enacted – could enable public bodies to make spending decisions that penalise middle-class areas.

Writing in the Mail, the Tory leader brands the plan ‘ideological dross’ that could submerge Britain into a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’.

She warns: ‘It means your council obsessing over “impact assessments” while local roads decay, schools spending money on “equality training” instead of textbooks, government departments taking more time analysing postcodes than fixing real problems.’