our minister for equalities

"Equality is not an aside for me; it is not an after-thought or a secondary consideration. It is at the heart of what this coalition government is about...

I do not believe in a world where everybody gets the same out of life, regardless of what they put in.

That is why no government should try to ensure equal outcomes for everyone."

Theresa May, Equality strategy speech

So she scrapped the socio-economic duty:

"Just look at the socio-economic duty. It was meant to force public authorities to take into account inequality of outcome when making decisions about their policies.

...In reality, it would have been just another bureaucratic box to be ticked. It would have meant more time filling in forms and less time focusing on policies that will make a real difference to people’s life chances."

(From the same speech)

Like cutting benefits for people who depend on them. That will make a difference to their life chances. Or kicking them out of their council homes and making higher education too expensive for their children. Or lowering corporation tax (again), because business should be protected, but people not.

Or removing the only possibility that those who are not millionaires might have to access justice, one of those 'civil liberties' that the condom-heads pretend to value. Fair trials for the barons. A different life chance for the proles, because we would not want the outcome of unfair behaviour to be the same for proles and barons. What a boring, bureacratic box-tick that would be.

And our Equalities Minister also had a go at encouraging the police to stop and search discriminately, on the basis of a person's ethnic origin, because people of certain ethnic origins (not hers) should have a difference made to their life chances too:

"There may be circumstances... where it is appropriate for officers to take account of an individual’s ethnic origin in selecting persons and vehicles to be stopped in response to a specific threat or incident, but this must not be the sole reason for the stop. For example, when the authorising officer reasonably believes that those likely to be responsible are associated with particular ethnic identities and passes that information on to the officers exercising the powers"

(from Draft amendments to PACE Code A. Quoted in Liberty's response to the consultation)

Luckily she couldn't get away with that one - or not just yet.

The police minister, the Conservative MP Nick Herbert, said the new guidance on section 60 would protect civil liberties by ensuring the law was used appropriately and proportionately. He said: "Previous guidance did not place any restrictions on [section 60] use but now it will make clear that an individual characteristic such as ethnicity should never be the sole basis for any search."

Theresa May drops plans for stop-and-search laws targeting ethnic minorities