Top Tory Suella Braverman attacks the 'culture of rights created by Tony Blair' in the UK

The Attorney General also used her policy exchange speech to detail the legal obligations schools had toward trans students. She insists that teachers don't have to allow trans students to change uniforms.

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Suella Braverman attacked what she described as a "culture of rights" in Britain that did not exist before 1998, a year after Tony Blair became Prime Minister.

The Attorney General has slammed equality experts on 'grossly inflated wages' who have 'misinterpreted and weaponized' equality laws to combat those who challenge their views as speech writers hatred.

In a speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, Ms Braverman claimed that many institutions were "misinterpreting" the equality law, leaving many to go "beyond the law", under the pressure of "moral obligations".

"We now have a 'culture of rights' in a way that didn't exist before 1998.

“Some aspects of this cause confusion and distress. In my view, many of the difficult cases we have seen are symptomatic of this long tail of Blairism,” Ms. Braverman lamented.

Tony Blair with his wife Cherie outside 10 Downing Street after Labor won the May 1997 general election (

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Schools are not required to allow trans students to change uniforms or use a child's preferred pronouns, she told the audience.

“It is therefore false for schools to suggest that they have legal obligations which mean that they must address children by their preferred pronouns or names, or admit them to restrooms, sports teams or dormitories. of the opposite sex.

“The right not to be discriminated against on the basis of gender reassignment is not the same as a right to access facilities provided for the opposite sex,” added Ms. Braverman.

Although her speech seemed to suggest the need to address rights that had been misunderstood, she still criticized public servants who spent "thousands of hours of their taxpayer-funded time last year attend lectures on unconscious bias training."

Ms Braverman's speech follows an op-ed she wrote for the Telegraph, insisting that schools should only affirm a child's gender preference when it differs from their sex at the time. birth "on the advice of an independent physician".