The Tories today warned white working-class boys ‘don’t need another Labour quango lecturing them’ as the Government set up a new Whitehall ‘class unit’.
Bridget Phillipson, the equalities minister, is establishing the new unit as part of plans to place social class on a par with sex, race and disability for the first time.
It is the first time a government has specifically created a dedicated Whitehall team to reduce class inequalities and discrimination.
The new unit will sit alongside similar units covering race, gender, LGBT and disability rights.
Sitting within the Office for Equality and Opportunity, one of the new unit’s first tasks will be to
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