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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Ministers to put white working-class people in UK at heart of new equalities unit

Bridget Phillipson sitting at a table chatting with children.
As a former education secretary, Bridget Phillipson said ‘for the first time in a long time white working-class children have a government that will fight for them’. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

The government is putting class at the heart of its equalities agenda by creating a new unit that will make tackling white working-class inequality a priority.

The unit, which the minister for women and equalities, Bridget Phillipson, will announce on Wednesday, will sit within the Office for Equality and Opportunity and examine disparities linked to class and socioeconomic background across all ethnic groups.

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