The Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss has hit out at the Government saying they have focused too heavily on “fashionable” race, sexuality and gender issues at the expense of poverty and geographical disparities.
Truss who is also the Women and Equalities minister will hit out at the dominance of “identity politics, loud lobby groups and the idea of lived experience” in the debate about developing a fairer society during the equalities brief on Thursday.
She will outline a pivot away from quotas, targets, unconscious bias training and diversity statements to improve equality, dismissing them as “tools of the Left” that “do nothing to fix systems”.
The state must not “waste time on misguided, wrong-headed and ultimately destructive ideas that take agency away from people,” she is set to say.
Her major policy reset, made in a speech entitled “The New Fight for Fairness”, will set out a fresh “Conservative values” approach to equalities based on “freedom, choice, opportunity, and individual humanity and dignity”.
She believes there has been an over-emphasis on campaign groups like Black Lives Matter and is concerned that the loudest groups have tended to attract the most attention, instead of evidence leading the debate, it is understood.
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