Stonewall has purged all Government departments from its list of top 100 employers after Kemi Badenoch told officials to stop employing the charity. ‘Extreme views’ Sir John Hayes, the Tory MP and former Cabinet Office minister, last year raised concern about Stonewall’s influence in Whitehall, citing what he described as “their extreme views on the trans debate”. A Whitehall source …
Ministers are preparing to block the chairman of Stonewall from leading the competition watchdog, following a long-running row over the regulator’s affiliation with the LGBT charity. Sheldon Mills is a frontrunner to become chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority, which until recently, insisted on continuing its membership of Stonewall’s “diversity champions” programme despite political pressure to quit the …
The Department of Health has ended its involvement with the Stonewall diversity scheme, it has emerged, amid a row over single-sex wards. Government departments spent £301,623 on Stonewall membership Responding to a written question from fellow Conservative MP Tim Loughton, Mr Argar said: “As of February 2021, the department’s membership with Stonewall has ended.” Meanwhile, Chris Heaton-Harris, a transport minister …
