'I'd rather children be taught maths than 72 genders': Inside the Tory war on woke

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'I'd rather children be taught maths than 72 genders': Inside the Tory war on woke
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Rishi Sunak has stepped up his “war on woke” as a key Conservative strategy in the run-up to the next general election 🔎 Big Read by poppyeh

, the co-founder of Next Gen Tories and chairman of the Greenwich Conservative Federation, said: “The answer for some Tories is to embrace the ‘culture wars’ as a clear dividing line between us and Labour.”

Even Matt Hancock, a former Tory Cabinet minister, warned last week that ramping up the war on woke in the run-up to the next general election could blow the party’s chances. Mr Kaszeta was disinvited from speaking at the 25th annual Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference last week after civil servants vetted his social media and found criticism of Government policies.

Kojo Koram, who lectures in law at Birkbeck, University of London, said the decision to focus on “campus culture wars at a time when the infrastructure of Britain’s higher education system is crumbling makes a kind of sense”.

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