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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Fraser Nelson.

Earlier this week, the International Trade Secretary Liz Trust, who also holds debris for women inequalities,

set the cat among the pigeons with a speech at the Centre for Policy Studies. Katie, what is she saying?

So LIS Trust was talking about reconfiguring how the Office of Women's Inequalities works,

and not so much as scrapping all its previous, but definitely adding things into it and almost

a refocusing of what should matter. And a large part of this is where you come from, so talking

about how lows outside of London in the regions struggle more in terms of life opportunities.

And also, I think, just looking at the responsibility of the individuals. So rather than talking about group characteristics, she's keen to apply conservative principles and start to talk about individual characteristics. And in doing so, she was suggesting that sometimes in the past, the office's focus, and I think it's probably worth noting at this point that the office has been under

conservative management for some time, has been too much on a minority of voices, too much

on metropolitan groups and not representative of issues that really matter to most ordinary

people. Fraser, what's your reaction to her speech? I think it was quite interesting,

not just because of what she said about equalities,

but about the shape of conservatism in general.

Now, this was a speech that was part of a general thrust.

We've had Kemi Biednach, her deputy as a qualities minister, a few weeks ago, saying that the Tory party

now stands ideologically opposed to critical race theory.

This was quite something because the Tories haven't been ideologically anything when it comes to the

equality's agenda. They've tended to run and hide from it. And they've tended to see if they can

beat labor at their own game. The general feeling was that this was something the Tories had to atone for

in the David Cameron era and the Theresa May era. In fact, Theresa May actually invited David Lamy,

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