Amber Rudd on why PM is getting it wrong on equality and Brexit
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Former home secretary Amber Rudd finds the state of the Conservative party "devastating” and "embarrassing". In the second episode of a special interview series, she tells Sebastian Payne that Boris Johnson’s all-male cabal is promoting inequality, is high-handed with business and is heading for a hard Brexit without appearing to analyse different outcomes on trade.
In response to Ms Rudd’s comments, Downing Street said the government was “focused on improving diversity throughout our ministerial ranks and crucially lining up the next generation of female talent”.
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| 0:40.3 | from November the 22nd. Why are there so few women in Boris Johnson's cabinet? |
| 0:50.0 | And why is the Conservative Party struggling to attract more female MPs? |
| 0:57.2 | Welcome to Payne's politics, your essential insider guide towards happening in British |
| 1:02.1 | politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. If you look like a government that is only interested in having men at the senior level, |
| 1:18.4 | only having men in the decision-making, then you are an unequal government and you are promoting inequality and that is the wrong |
| 1:25.3 | place to be for the British government. |
| 1:27.7 | In this interview special, I'm joined by Amber Rudd, the former Home Secretary and |
| 1:32.4 | Equality's Minister. |
| 1:34.0 | We'll be discussing why the Tories are lagging behind when it comes to female representation |
| 1:39.5 | in Parliament and whether a macho culture around Boris Johnson is to blame. |
| 1:45.0 | Ms Rudd was first elected as the MP for Hastings and Rye in 2010, |
| 1:50.0 | later entering the Cabinet as Energy and Climate Change Secretary, |
| 1:54.0 | then Home Secretary, before she was forced to resign over the Windrush scandal. |
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