Conservatives have failed to overturn Blair’s disastrous legal legacy
by Miriam Cates MP, Conservative Home:
How did this happen under a Conservative government?
From conversations on the doorstep to interactions on social media, this has become one of the most ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ to Conservative MPs.
And rightly so.
Since the turn of the century, the UK has been through enormous cultural upheaval. Many of the foundations of our shared national life have been shaken, and many of our institutions now seem determined to undermine our shared sense of identity rather than conserve it. Despite a Conservative government being in power for the majority of the last two decades, we have failed to ‘conserve’ some of the most basic building blocks of our culture.
Where once public sector organisations sought to serve our nation, now many seek to change it. From schools to the military, museums to hospitals, signalling obeisance to the new religion of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) seems to have become more important to some institutions than fulfilling their duties to the British public.
Woke is no joke. Some of the more absurd examples of DEI in action are rather funny, such as the nurse who asked an elderly man if he might be pregnant. But amusement evaporates when we consider the destructive impact of these policies. The crisis in armed forces recruitment because young white men feel unwanted. The wasted millions spent on NHS diversity officers when demand for treatment is at record high. The increasing number of British children who say they hate their own country.
In a perfect illustration of the costs of this institutional capture, the Cass report recently found that unknown thousands of children have been set on unevidenced and irreversible medical and surgical pathways to ‘change their gender.’ This scandal was enabled because some members of the NHS – our most trusted institution – were openly allowed to pursue a radical political agenda without challenge.
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