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Top Tory Robert Jenrick has launched a brand new campaign demanding a direct finish to “state-sanctioned racism” in opposition to white folks in Britain. In a brand new video along with his Conservative parliamentary colleague Neil O’Brien, the Shadow Justice Secretary warned that the Equality Act and practices like variety, equality and inclusion (EDI) have change into “a Trojan horse for anti-white discrimination”.

The pair requested: “Does equality before the law really exist any more?” They listed a litany of current examples, together with current steerage by prime judges that might have created extra lenient sentences for ethnic minorities. Just final week, it was revealed that West Yorkshire Police had quickly prevented white British candidates from making use of for jobs.

It was additionally claimed that totally different ethnic minorities had been categorised into gold, silver and bronze ranges.

Mr O’Brien, a shadow training minister on Kemi Badenoch’s entrance bench, warned: “These policies that are supposedly ‘more inclusive’ are actually creating a lot of division in this country.

“And in the name of fairness, policies are being pursued that are actually incredibly unfair to people, and judge people just by the colour of their skin.”

Mr Jenrick condemned Britain’s equality legal guidelines as reintroducing “selection by skin colour”, one thing laborious fought in opposition to within the identify of anti-racism within the 60s and 70s.

The pair additionally took goal at variety managers, notably within the public sector – mentioning that the NHS has about 800 officers costing £40million a yr.

It has unfold to British defence as effectively, with the RAF being pressured to pay compensation after illegally discriminating in opposition to “useless white men”.

The Army itself has instructed enjoyable safety clearances as a way to enhance the recruitment of ethnic minorities.

Mr Jenrick warned that this “is putting diversity ahead of our national security”.

Mr O’Brien says: “The truth is that the DEI agenda isn’t doing anything to promote opportunity for people who need it most.”

“Instead it’s lumping together a lot of different people, who have nothing in common other than the fact that they are not white.

“That’s not doing anything for people who are coming from poorer backgrounds who don’t get any chances in life, and it’s creating a more divided country, not a more equal one.”

They outlined that the issue lies with Labour’s 2010 Equality Act, which permits anti-white discrimination below the guise of affirmative motion and, subsequently, makes it authorized.

While Mr Jenrick says “it’s time to end it all”, Mrs Badenoch has not but dedicated to repealing the Equality Act.

However, when nonetheless in authorities, she led efforts to amend the Equality Act particularly to make sure ladies’s security and forestall trans folks from accessing women-only areas.