Baroness Fox of Buckley has commended The Christian Institute’s legal action against the Civil Service’s taxpayer-funded participation in Pride marches. ‘Distracting’Lady Fox stated: “I wish that more public bodies would commit themselves to effectively carrying out their functions and not get distracted by the public sector equality duty. “We need reassurance that the public sector equality duty has not been used to distract the police or to politicise policing. “Sitting in front of a phalanx of civil servants in rainbow lanyards gives the impression that their minds are closed on the issues we are discussing. It certainly does not communicate the kind of neutrality that taxpayers expect of civil servants.”