
A government minister has said taxpayers’ money is being wasted on equality and diversity consultants as she vowed to “look carefully” at spending in the area.
Veteran Tory MP Esther McVey, the “minister for common sense” who was given the unofficial title after her appointment to the Cabinet Office in Rishi Sunak’s last reshuffle, took aim at what she dubbed “wasteful” public spending in an article in the Daily Mail.