Adil Ray has taken to social media to share his rather damning verdict of Reform UK’s shadow cabinet, taking particular issue with former home secretary Suella Braverman’s pledges in her new role as education and skills spokesperson.The Good Morning Britain star, who’ll return to the ITV show on Thursday, was reacting to Ms Braverman’s remarks after she was unveiled as a key part of Nigel Farage’s shadow cabinet.Mr Farage’s announcement saw other former Conservative ministers handed prominent roles, with Richard Tice designated as deputy prime minister should Reform win the next election. Mr Tice would additionally oversee a newly created business, trade and energy department.Robert Jenrick, who held various ministerial positions including health, immigration, treasury and local government under the previous Tory administration, was given the Treasury brief.
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Ms Braverman, twice home secretary and former attorney general, received the education, skills and equalities portfolio. Both Mr Jenrick and Ms Braverman switched from the Conservatives to Reform earlier this year.Upon receiving her appointment, Ms Braverman declared that a Reform government would scrap the Equality Act immediately upon taking office.”On day one, we will get rid of the equalities department, we will scrap the equalities minister – yes, I’m doing myself out of a job – and we will repeal the Equality Act,” she stated.The former home secretary argued that diversity, equality and inclusion policies were tearing Britain apart, claiming DEI had become “less about diversity and more about conforming to left-wing ideology” and “less about equality and more about prejudice against white people.”She questioned why white working-class boys continued to have the poorest educational outcomes, pledging to build “a country defined by meritocracy not tokenism.”Ms Braverman also committed to introducing what she termed a “patriotic, balanced curriculum which fosters a love of this great country,” arguing that the current education system encouraged children to view Britain “with shame rather than pride.”On transgender issues in schools, she was unequivocal: “Social and gender transitioning will be absolutely banned in all schools – no ifs, no buts.”The former home secretary issued a stark warning to higher education institutions, stating: “To those universities that have descended into hotbeds of cancel culture, antisemitism, and which survive really thanks to the cash of foreign students, and keep conning young people into worthless degrees, Reform is putting you on notice.”LATEST DEVELOPMENTSShirley Ballas statement fuels rumours she’s QUITTING BBC Strictly as she makes family admissionNancy Guthrie hunt suffers major setback as DNA expert reveals ‘biggest question’ in caseJohn Cleese blasts Labour ‘extreme right’ definition: ‘They’re going to have to arrest me!’She also pledged that half of school leavers would enter manual and vocational work.Following Ms Braverman’s comments, Mr Ray, who’s no stranger to voicing his political opinions on social media, took to Instagram and BlueSky to condemn the former home secretary.He stated: “Today Reform’s ‘equalities’ spokesperson- Braverman- has said she’ll repeal the Equalities Act on ‘day one’.”In the US, we know where this dehumanisation leads. Broadcasters who challenge are censored and taken off air and minority allies get shot in the face and killed. Is this heading to facism?” (sic)The news presenter followed his first update with another, in which he warned: “Reform voters may want to remember that The Equality Act protects us all.”In recent years the EA has protected female workers in B’ham with equal pay, staff at Asda, Tesco, Next as well as injured, disabled and early redundancy cases for builders. No EA will only help large employers and companies.” (sic)Ms Braverman hasn’t directly responded to Mr Ray’s posts, but did double down on her stance in a series of televised interviews on Tuesday.Elsewhere, Zia Yusuf, previously Reform’s chairman and head of policy, was appointed as the party’s home affairs spokesman. Mr Farage also used the occasion to address longstanding criticism of his party’s structure.”Too often the criticism over the last 20 months has been that we’re a one-man band, to which I generally respond by saying well, it’s better than a no-man band,” he said.”But the time has come to broaden the party, to put in place people in shadow positions, and that process begins today.”
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