As Donald Trump starts clamping down on diversity, equality and inclusion practices, it’s a shame that the same can’t be said on our side of the pond. In the same week that the new president ordered all of the US government’s DEI staff to go on paid leave ‘immediately’, Mr S has spotted a rather, er, odd question submitted by Caerphilly’s Labour MP Chris Evans on the Equality Act. Indeed, it might have left No.10’s spinners pulling their hair out…
It appears Evans seemed to think it was a good use of his time and status to table a parliamentary question about the introduction of yet more protected characteristics to the legislation. The matter that Evans himself appears especially concerned with is, um, hair colour. As if we were running out of things to get wound up about, eh?
It may not be the first query about which groups are protected by the Act – race equality organisations have urged Labour to review the legislation while trans groups have for years been calling for it to include ‘gender identity’ – but it’s certainly the weirdest.
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