Labour has managed to find enough cash behind the sofa to boost the budget of the Office for Equality and Opportunity – the Cabinet Office department responsible for “leading on equality policy, including women, race, LGBT+, and disability equality.” It’s gone up by 9.3%…
In a written response to Mike Wood, Labour admitted that the Office’s overall budget has increased from £16.2m in 2024-25 to £17.7m in 2025-26. Guido is old enough to remember that Reeves only pledged to increase departments’ day-to-day spending by 3.3%. Nearly triple that going towards the equality drive…
Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: “We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We say the results in Aberdeen South: 50% of the vote. Because we can unite the country… It’s about uniting the country, for God’s sake, behind a centre-right agenda.”