Reform accused of seeking to insert ‘toxic politics’ into English football

Reform’s equalities spokesperson, Suella Braverman, said the FA’s policies which seek to increase the percentage of England’s men’s coaching staff that are from ethnically diverse backgrounds were ‘inherently racist and bad for the game’. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

Reform UK has been accused of seeking to insert “toxic politics” into football after the party pressed the Football Association in England to scrap diversity and inclusion policies.

Suella Braverman wrote to the FA on Tuesday to ask for a meeting to discuss the governing body’s diversity policies, which Reform’s equalities spokesperson described as “utter woke nonsense”.