It’s Election Day Eve and the likely victors are already planning for the future. Mr S wrote today about how Sir Keir’s top team have been trying to cosy up to Donald Trump – but it’s not just foreign policy they’ve been considering. Closer to home it transpires that Labour is considering appointing a new chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) – and it might ruffle just a few feathers…
Starmer’s army want outgoing Labour veteran Harriet Harman to take on the top job at the equalities watchdog, the Times has revealed today. Currently the position is held by Baroness Falkner of Margravine. While her current contract is due to run out on 30 November, it was thought that women and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch would extend it if the Tories remained in government.
Baroness Falkner has been a vocal women’s rights campaigner and a firm advocate of single-sex spaces, having previously advised the Conservative government to improve on legal protections for biological women.
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