Amna Mohdin

What's quite shocking really is that she links this duty to major crime and political scandals.

People are now saying diversity in its entirety, it's wrong.

The Overton window has shifted so far to the right that Aidan Ock is a moderate on this question.

This duty is a legal obligation for public bodies, so that's hospitals, police officers, teachers, that requires them to have a think before they act and to make sure that they are thinking about equality law.

So, for example, if a local council wants to shut down a local library, they need to have a think about the impact that could have

on local community, on children, on people from lower income backgrounds, on disabled people.

So for example, if you close down that local library and in that area there are quite a lot of disabled people, can they access the next nearby library?

If the answer to that is no, they have to ensure that there's public transport available to them to go to that next library, or there's a mobile library, or they rethink the decision to close down that library.

And so why does Badenoch say that she wants to abolish this duty?

Because it sounds quite sensible on the face of it.

So she says what was a sensible safeguard has now gone too far.

She links a lot of that to Black Lives Matter and what she describes as identity politics.

But this is a misreading, perhaps a willful misreading, of equality law.

This duty has existed since the Stephen Lawrence murder and the inquiry that has followed.

Again, it just tells public bodies, why don't you have a think about what impact your actions could go on to have?

But she argues that this has become a vehicle for grievance politics, for identity politics, that it's pushing EDI, diversity initiatives.

And it means that public bodies are no longer focused on their core responsibilities.

What's quite shocking really is that she links this duty to major crime and political scandals that we've had, such as the Manchester Arena bombing, the Nottingham attacks, Southport and grooming gangs.

Yeah, so I spoke to equality experts, so professors and barristers who were quite sceptical of her linking with this public duty with some of the recent scandals that they've had.

Many have just said that it's complete nonsense.