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Can common sense replace Equality Act protections, as Kemi Badenoch suggests?
The Tory leader argues that the public sector equality duty, introduced after the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, encourages division and should be replaced with common sense, while legal experts warn that abolishing it would increase discrimination.
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