Reform UK would repeal the Equality Act on day one if it won the next election, Suella Braverman has announced.
The party’s new education, skills and equalities spokeswoman said Britain was being “ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion” policies – and the party would scrap the equalities minister, part of her own brief.
As Nigel Farage announced members of his front-bench team, he put Robert Jenrick in charge of Reform’s plan for the economy, dubbing him the party’s “shadow chancellor of the Exchequer”.
Mr Farage has unveiled four spokespeople in all who would form part of a cabinet if Reform won the next general election, saying his party was “the voice of opposition” to Labour.
He also announced Zia Yusuf will be Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman, while its new business, trade and energy spokesman Richard Tice said the party would create a new “super-department” in government.
Local government leaders are still reeling after Labour abandoned plans to postpone elections across 30 councils this May, in the wake of advice from lawyers following a legal challenge from Reform UK.
