Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy has always been one to champion equality and diversity, often lamenting over the lack of BAME and female workers various industries. His passion for diversity led him to be invited to deliver a keynote speech for the launch of a firm’s black employees’ resource group in 2020. For which he received the princely sum of £2,050…

Guido took the time to see what Lammy had to say on equality considering he may well be the next Foreign Secretary. It appears his love of getting women into work goes so far that he himself actually refuses to hire any men. He admitted:

“I just had a role in my office that I advertised, and because of the nature the economy, I got 250 applications. I don’t mind saying that I ruled out every man on the list and that was because I was determined to get a woman.”

Under the Equality Act, employers cannot discriminate against anyone because of their sex. Ruling out male applicants for a job just to “get a woman”, therefore, is not just “positive discrimination.” Noticeably, the vast majority of Lammy’s parliamentary staff who don’t already work for the Labour Party are women…