GB News presenter Stephen Dixon certainly didn’t hold back any punches as he grilled Shadow Treasury Minister Gareth Davies about the Tories’ criticisms of DEI initiatives. During Thursday’s visit (March 13) to the London studios, the 51-year-old welcomed the MP onto the programme to discuss the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion initiatives pushed by Labour following Donald Trump’s second term in office.
However, the Tories have been very critical of the time and money spent on DEI training and imitative in the current economic climate. Moments into the heated debate, Ellie Costello pointed out one of the Conversative biggest issues with DEI while they were in power fir 15 years. She began: “Looking at your record, under your rule the government equalities office expanded, reports that civil servants spent thousands of hours on DEI training and spent £27.1million on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion initiatives.
“You’re now attacking Labour for this but these policies grew under your government, didn’t they? Why didn’t you take a tougher line when you had the chance?”
The politician immediately shut down that line of questioning, simply replying: “We can talk about the past all you like, we’re not in government anymore, we lost the last election and Labour are in power now.
“But it is right that organisations like the FCA have come out and said that they’re going to drop their plans on DEI and I think that’s important. We want the FCA, the financial regulators to be focused on economic growth and not on other initiatives.
"It's a fair challenge but we have new leadership now and we're moving forward and challenging this Labour government to make sure that all of these organisations are focused on the right thing which is growing our economy and making sure that we're as competitive as possible.
"Unfortunately, the budget last year is undoing that work for the Labour government right now". It was at this point that Stephen pointed out the contradictory argument, as he argued: "But the problem is, especially with the position the Tories are in now, you're wanting to rebuild trust, that's really important.
"But you can't help but look at this and saying, 'Do as I say, not do as I did.'"
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