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Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said Kemi Badenoch had ‘lost the confidence’ of the LGBT+ community.

Three of the UK government’s advisors have quit their roles after accusing Boris Johnson’s administration of creating a “hostile” environment for the LGBTQ+ community. The first to quit was Jayne Ozanne, a key member of the government’s LGBT+ advisory panel and a prominent gay evangelical Christian, citing “ignorance” on behalf of ministers about LGBTQ+ issues. “I’ve been increasingly concerned about what is seen to be a hostile environment for LGBT people among this administration,” she told UK Editor Paul Brand in an interview with ITV News. “Over the years which the a...

Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) Two more top advisers have quit the government’s LGBT Advisory Panel, accusing Conservatives of creating a “hostile environment” for LGBT+ people. Advisors James Morton and Ellen Murray followed Jayne Ozanne in stepping down from the panel late last night (10 March) amid mounting claims of government hostilities towards the LGBT+ community. In a damning resignation letter to secretary of state Priti Patel, Morton expressed his deepening concern over the direction the Conservatives are takin...

Whitehall sources confirmed on Thursday that Ellen Murray had also quit the panel.

Two more government LGBT advisers have quit an official panel amid growing concern that ministers are creating a 'hostile environment' for LGBT people.