Who talks about diversity - and who practices it.

The Labour party never stops preaching sanctimoniously to every other part of society about the need for diversity and equal opportunity.

And yet they are truly dreadful at practicing diversity at the top.

While Liz Truss is the third woman to hold the job of Prime Minister - and like the two previous women to achieve the position, is a Conservative - and every other political party in Britain has had at least one woman leader, Labour is the ONLY major political party which has NEVER elected a female leader.

The Conservatives believe in appointment on merit, but we practice diversity where Labour talks about it. Boris Johnson's first cabinet was the most diverse in British history. Liz Truss's first cabinet is if anything even more so.

In her top four posts, Liz Truss has appointed:

Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor














James Cleverly as foreign secretary








Suella Braverman as home secretary














Therese Coffey as deputy prime minister and health secretary














Other appointment include Penny Mordaunt as Leader of the House of Commons, Nadhim Zahawi as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Wendy Morton as Chief Whip.

One of the few people staying in the same job is Defence secretary Ben Wallace.

I will post a full list of the government later. What is clear is that while Labour preaches endlessly about diversity, yet does not practice it, the Conservatives do.






Comments

Anonymous said…
got a request. can you do the same thing for the shadow Cumberland Council pleaze
4:12 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
It is worth pointing out that the full slate of candidates which the Conservatives put up for election to Cumberland council was very significantly more diverse than the group of Conservative councillors who the electorate returned.

There were women candidates, young candidates and ethnic minority candidates standing for us, including candidates in what would normally have been safe Conservative seats.

Nevertheless, while all the candidates we returned as councillors in Cumberland were good candidates who deserved their places on our ticket, we do have more work to do to ensure that the Conservative group on the next Cumberland council both is and is seen to be open to all groups in society and shows the same kind of diversity you can see in our parliamentary party and the cabinet.
12:16 pm
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