Britain’s once-thriving communities are threatened by poor integration, creating separate cultures, parallel institutions, and a two-tier system with different rules for different cohorts.
This division is unfair, dangerous, and risks fostering extremism rather than unity, it must stop.
That is why we are launching a Cultural and Integration Commission👇:
Protected characteristics will not be used as a positive criteria for hiring, promotion, admissions, or procurement.
There will be no more state-sponsored division. From now on, every public body will act based on merit and competence, not grievance and quotas.
Universalism will run through every aspect of government policy, from education, to policing, welfare and immigration.
We will review every single code of practice to ensure standardisation across public bodies and prevent them from doing their own thing.
Our curriculum should tell a coherent national story. One that is inclusive of the many people who have come to Britain, but without the grievance or guilt which is corroding our cultural confidence.
Teachers, lecturers, public servants and employers must be able to state basic facts and uphold standards without being intimidated into silence.
We will end the institutional self-censorship that stops people from doing the right thing.
It will look at how we introduce a Meritocracy Test: making sure that anti-discrimination is not used as a mechanism to undermine meritocracy.
We want to align incentives so integration and assimilation become the path of least resistance.
So that we tackle both the ideology on extremism and separatism and identify the conditions that let it grow.
This is being led by Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy, and supported by former Prison Governor Ian Acheson.
Those are the principles that will guide the Integration Commission being chaired by Lord Young.
They will report back with specific, actionable policies before Conservative Conference this Autumn.
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