Scrap legal equality duty for public services, says Badenoch

The Conservative leader says the rules have led to public bodies becoming "institutionally incompetent".

Labour accuses Badenoch of wanting to ‘turn clock back’ with plan to scrap public sector equality duty – UK politics live

Technology secretary says legal requirement that protects women, older people and others from workplace discrimination is ‘really important’ Good morning. For the last week or so much of the media has been dominated by a debate triggered by the murder of Henry Nowak, and claims that video footage of the police handcuffing him as he was dying showed that the police cared more about an accusation of racism than they did about a stabbing. The judge who presided over the trial of Nowak’s killer d...

By Andrew Sparrow

Badenoch to call for public sector equality rules to be scrapped after Henry Nowak murder

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

By David Lynch

Legal equality duty for public services should be scrapped, says Kemi Badenoch

Rules requiring public bodies such as schools and hospitals to promote equality when making decisions should be scrapped, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will say in a speech on Tuesday.

By Abubakar Ibrahim