Diversity and inclusion laws have ‘presented Reform UK with an open goal’ but Badenoch has ‘spied her opportunity’ in the culture wars

Mrs Badenoch will warn the duty has ‘become a minefield’

In a major intervention, the Conservative leader will commit to scrapping the 'public sector equality duty' which has been blamed for the spread of identity politics throughout…

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While her focus will be on the abolition of the PSED, questions will no doubt be raised about other contentious aspects of the Equality Act.

Kemi Badenoch is using the Henry Nowak murder to launch a new attack on equalities legislation but political editor David Maddox warns that the speech is more about taking on…

Equality should be about treating people fairly and enforcing clear, comprehensible rules that everyone can see and understand.

The Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says she wants equalities rules to be scrapped and has called for a major overhaul of the Equalities Act, saying institutions are too worried…

Badenoch should go further. There are other parts of the 2010 Equality Act – of which the duty is a part – which are deeply perverse.

Diversity and inclusion laws have ‘presented Reform UK with an open goal’ but Badenoch has ‘spied her opportunity’ in the culture wars