Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’

The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.

An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.
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Urging the party to renew its “covenant with the British people”, Blue Labour’s article said: “We are proud of our multiracial democracy and we utterly reject divisive identity politics, which undermines the bonds of solidarity between those of different sexes, races and nationalities.

“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
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Blue Labour calls for lower migration in the same article in which it takes aim at DEI, saying: “Immigration is not a distraction or a culture war issue; it is the most fundamental of political questions, a cause of social fragmentation, and the basis of our broken political economy.

“We should drastically reduce immigration, reducing low-skill immigration by significantly raising salary thresholds; closing the corrupt student visa mill system; and ending the exploitation of the asylum system, if necessary prioritising domestic democratic politics over the rule of international lawyers.”

In May, it emerged that net migration almost halved in 2024.

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
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    5 days ago

    You’re right, my mind put his time leading Labour Together as Blue Labour. Doesn’t help that the media only talks about Blue Labour in reference to the man, though there is apparently some cross pollination between the two groups:

    [Blue Labour], which is reportedly working with Jonathan Ashworth’s think tank Labour Together, wants to see the Government shout louder about what it is doing to remove illegal immigrants, as well as invest more in northern England. Bassetlaw MP Jo White is said to be the group’s convenor.