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Kemi Badenoch: “You don’t need a duty to tell you to take account of differences. Quite often differences are obvious.”

On the recordJune 10, 2026
You don’t need a duty to tell you to take account of differences. Quite often differences are obvious.
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Kemi Badenoch
Conservative Party

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In a speech addressing the public sector equality duty.

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