Monday 24th May 2021

[refitman]

Morning all.

[RogerOThornhill]

Good morning.

Nice to the DfE maintaining their idea that HTs and schools - and in particular academies - are able to decide what is best for their pupils without the heavy hand of bureaucracy interfering...

[gilsey]

Liz Truss’s main job is international trade secretary, but she is also the minister for women and equalities (the cabinet minister running the Government Equalities Office) and in her LBC phone-in she was asked what the government had done to promote racial equality in the year since George Floyd was murdered in the US. Truss said that the government has published the report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, chaired by Tony Sewell, and that it had been “very important in setting a new agenda for how we’re dealing with racial equality is Britain”.

NF: You must accept secretary, it was widely condemned.

LT: There was a lot of support for the report.

NF: From whom?

LT: From a number of people - I can't think of them of the top of my head, but a lot of people said this is a common sense approach ...

NF: Lord Woolley, the head of [Operation Black Vote] said it was ridiculous, so many other campaigners, I can give you names. Give me the name of someone how actually lauded it outside the prime minister.

LT: I’ll get back to you. I can’t remember offhand.

[RogerOThornhill]

LOL.

[gilsey]

Max Hastings stating the obvious very fluently.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Well, the sooner the clock runs out on him the better, that is all I can say.

[notnowsonny]

Liz Truss’s main job is international trade secretary, but she is also the minister for women and equalities (the cabinet minister running the Government Equalities Office) and in her LBC phone-in she was asked what the government had done to promote racial equality in the year since George Floyd was murdered in the US. Truss said that the government has published the report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, chaired by Tony Sewell, and that it had been “very important in setting a new agenda for how we’re dealing with racial equality is Britain”.

NF: You must accept secretary, it was widely condemned.

LT: There was a lot of support for the report.

NF: From whom?

LT: From a number of people - I can't think of them of the top of my head, but a lot of people said this is a common sense approach ...

NF: Lord Woolley, the head of [Operation Black Vote] said it was ridiculous, so many other campaigners, I can give you names. Give me the name of someone how actually lauded it outside the prime minister.

LT: I’ll get back to you. I can’t remember offhand.

Nick Ferarri even gave her a second shot at it after talking to the caller. She still couldn't "think" of a name.

[gilsey]

The worst govt minister is the one you're currently watching/listening to/thinking about.

[gilsey]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Looks like more dodgy goings on with planes in Belarus.