On Sky News:
“The problem is that there are white people in countless situations who are getting fewer opportunities, who are disadvantaged when it comes to promotion, disadvantaged when it comes to internships, disadvantaged when it comes to the workplace.
We need to start talking about that and levelling the playing field.”
Braverman says protections for minorities should still exist as part of a “a country where everybody, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality or age, is treated on meritocratic grounds, on fairness grounds, not better or worse because of their personal characteristics.” She says this can be done outside of the Equality Act, which she would abolish…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”