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

Labour accuses Badenoch of wanting to ‘turn clock back’ with plan to scrap public sector equality duty 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 did not accept this allegation at all – in fact, he defended the police officers involved – but the lack of any evidence to back up this theory has not stopped it being spouted widely, by rightwing politicians and by media organisations that support them. This morning, Kemi Badenoch , the Conservative leader, is giving a speech in part responding to this debate. Reform UK and Restore Britain have been more forceful than the Tories in claiming (despite all the evidence suggesting the opposite ) that the police in the UK are biased against white people. But the Tories have leant into this too, and in her interview on the Today programme this morning Badenoch presented her version of this claim. She said: double quotation mark The public sector equality duty is having the worst impact, I believe, when it comes to the police. The Henry Nowak murder has shocked the entire country. …