Labour MP: Afros should be a ‘protected characteristic’

Prisoners are out, the unions are striking and pensioners are having their winter fuel payments pulled. With Starmer’s Britain now bearing increasingly less resemblance to the land of milk and honey we were promised before the election, it’s good to see Labour MPs resorting to their default setting: banning things they just don’t like. Whether it’s smoking outside nightclubs, chicken shops near schools or hereditaries in the House of Lords, reaching for the legislative button to avoid having to tax or spend even more.

Now it seems there’s a new example to add to the list. Labour MP Paulette Hamilton is teaming up with, er, Spice Girl Mel B, to try to make the UK the ‘first western country to introduce a law to end afro hair discrimination.’ The pair are backing a World Afro Day (WAD) campaign which is calling on MPs to vote for ‘the recognition and prevention of Afro hair discrimination’ by updating the Equality Act 2010 to make Afro hair a protected characteristic.