Badenoch to call for public sector equality rules to be scrapped

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said the Public Sector Equality Duty should be scrapped (Paul Reid/PA) - (PA Wire)

Rules requiring police officers, nurses, and teachers to consider equality issues when they carry out their day-to-day work should be scrapped, Kemi Badenoch is to say.

The Conservative Party leader will set out plans to scrap the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) in a major speech on Tuesday, as part of a wider overhaul of the Equality Act.