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Ms Truss said the states agenda has been too narrow and ignored other crucial ways in which the country is not fair. Setting out a new “Conservative values” approach in a speech at the Centre for Policy Studies think tank she dismissed quotas, targets, and unconscious bias training as “tools of the Left” that “do nothing to fix systems”. Instead the government will concentrate on promoting “freedom, choice, opportunity, individual humanity and dignity,” she said. "To make our so...

BBC News By Justin Parkinson image captionLiz Truss says "right-thinking people" must fight for "fairness" The government is promising to focus more on peoples social class and individual "character", as it overhauls its equality policy. Equalities minister Liz Truss said the discrimination debate should not focus solely on race, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Discussion had too often been dominated by "fashion" and not "facts", she said. Labour accused Ms Truss of "gratuitous pro...

‘Fight For Fairness’ speech to set out government’s new approach to equality The Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss, sets out the Governments new approach to tackling inequality across the UK. From: 17 December 2020 Liz Truss to set out government’s move to root out inequality that impacts people across the UK New evidence-based approach to tackle geographical inequality and break down barriers to social mobility – moving away from current way of thinking Equality Hub to...

BBC News By Justin Parkinson image captionLiz Truss says "right-thinking people" must fight for "fairness" The government is promising to focus more on peoples social class and individual "character", as it overhauls its equality policy. Equalities minister Liz Truss said the discrimination debate should not focus solely on race, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Discussion had too often been dominated by "fashion" and not "facts", she said. Labour accused Ms Truss of "gratuitous pro...

17 December 2020 The Equality Data Programme is the Government’s broadest and most comprehensive equality data project. The large-scale project will gather data in order to better understand the barriers that people from every background are facing across the UK. The work will consider a wide range of issues, such as geography and social background, and will deliver on a manifesto commitment to improve evidence on equality and to support levelling up ambitions. The information gathered will b...