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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 December 2024

Debate

Football Governance Bill [HL]

Contribution

Just this weekend, we found out that the security services have said they will not recruit white British students to their internship schemes. Already people are talking about going to court because that is racist, discriminatory and unlawful. By the way, their justification is diversity. It is exactly the same as what happened with the RAF last year, which was forced to apologise when it emerged that it was unlawfully discriminating against white, male recruits. I also remind the Committee of the landmark case of Maya Forstater, who lost her job for expressing gender-critical views, all in an attempt to be inclusive of a trans employee. Her employers ended up breaking anti-discrimination laws in firing her.

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