Amna Mohdin
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On what impact that this could have, they said that the duty can impact disability access, maternity services, again, support for vulnerable children.
But there's a reason this duty exists because it hasn't been common sense in the past.
There was a requirement that told them, please stop, have a think.
critical race theories in schools.
She's always been very critical about the idea that the UK is institutionally racist.
She was behind the widely criticized race report that said that the UK does not have an issue of institutional racism.
The Sewell report.
Exactly.
So she
has always been quite consistent on this she does believe that people should be treated as individuals that there's an element of universalism which i think many of us can agree with but it's worth saying she's doing this now because there's figures to the right of her um who are winning voters you mentioned reform of course and then there's also restore um reform has called for the equality act to be abolished in its entirety in its entirety that should concern all of us because that would mean that it would be legal to discriminate against you if you're a woman if you're
a black person if you're a disabled person so we really need to ask ourselves do we want to live in a world where someone could be turned away to rent a property or to be turned away because they're pregnant or they've had a baby recently and they might have another baby soon so their employer wants to get rid of them like do we want to live in a society where that exists or people who experience that have no legal redress to challenge that
Yeah, Badenoch has quite a consistent narrative.
But what's quite frightening now is that it's not the most right wing narrative in our political system.
I would say about 10 years ago, some of the things that she was saying was quite shocking, was quite frightening.
But again, she now seems to fit more closely to the centre-right compared to what Reform are saying and again what Restore are saying.
What seems to be happening in British society is several things at once.
There is real deep-seated public anger at policing failures around, again,
So many different issues, failures around immigration, failures around public service.
You know, I do think that anger is real from my reporting from going to different parts of this country.
At the same time, Britain is a remarkably diverse country and nearly the majority of the people that live here are fine with living with people that are different from them.