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Reform UK plan to rip up Equalities Act shocking and un-British, says Starmer

PM argues party wants to send women back to ‘old days’ and urges Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to speak to authorities Reform UK’s plans to repeal the Equalities Act is “shocking” and unBritish, Keir Starmer has said, warning legislation that has provided decades of protection for women would be ripped up. In a pre-recorded interview with BBC Breakfast, the prime minister said the legislation was British at its core and represented “basic values”, before arguing Reform wanted to send women back to the “old days” when they were not treated equally. Continue reading...

By Jamie Grierson

Starmer brands Reform plan to scrap Equality Act ‘anti-British’

He said he ‘shuddered to think’ what women would make of the policy

By Harry Taylor