The Case Against the Equality Act

by Joanna Williams on substackThis week I attended the launch of a new paper from the Prosperity Institute: Some More Equal Than Others, The Case Against The Equality Act, by Alka Seghal Cuthbert and Anna Loutfi. The authors do a tremendous job of explaining how the Equality Act has instigated legal and social changes that have far-reaching consequences for all aspects of life in Britain today. Indeed, the Labour government that initiated the Equality Act was voted out of office before the new legislation became enshrined in law. Most significantly, the Equality Act represents a shift ‘from negative legal prohibitions against discrimination to a positive legal duty to enforce equality’. In other words, the Equality Act demands that institutions treat people differently and provide special dispensations to some to level the playing field for those assumed to be disadvantaged because of a particular ‘protectedRead here