As a result, senior politicians have raised concerns over the “preferential treatment or discrimination” through positive action schemes in the workplace against white people, including measures set out in the Equality Act.
James Wild, the Shadow Culture Minister, explained that workers should be rewarded based on their “talent and hard work regardless of their background or ethnicity”.
“Fairness means ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed, not preferential treatment or discrimination that puts others at an unfair disadvantage,” he told The Telegraph, favouring a system embedded in meritocracy.
Meanwhile, Suella Braverman, Reform UK’s equalities spokeswoman, told issue with the Equality Act, ripping into “rampant positive action schemes actively discriminating against white, working-class Britons”.
