F - inding a B alance - How to ensure Equality, Diversity

Whether it has been the representation of historical artefacts by the National Trust, the approach of universities to the inclusion of trans people, or NatWest/Coutts bank’s decision to remove banking facilities for the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, the debates have been intense and disagreement obvious. [...] Rt Hon Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Minister for Women and Equalities during the Cameron Government) This is encouraging research, which reinforces the view that there is more which unites us than divides us, and that most people want to live in a society where everyone is respected and has the capacity to live a life which is valuable and valued. [...] The murder of George Floyd and the growth of the Black Lives Matter campaign brought a new urgency to work in this area - not just in the United States but around the globe. [...] As such, More in Common, the University of Oxford and the UCL Policy Lab have spent the past few months speaking to and surveying Britons to better understand their attitudes to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. [...] The public are sceptical that the purpose of museums is specifically to atone for historic wrongs or to apply the values of modern society to the past.