We are sure Kemi Badenoch would agree that this was designed as an intentional strategic disruption.
Superficially it is an enquiry about a single issue. It is much more than that.
It is a bunker buster of a missile; these are designed to penetrate hardened targets or targets buried deep. This is not solely an issue about sex and gender identification.
The serious and wider intent is shown in the letter.
Section 10 of the Equality Act 2010 is stated as applying and “my view is that the teacher was not acting in a way consistent with the Equality Act’s requirements”. In then going on to make an explicit link, “…the teacher was in breach of the political impartiality requirements set out in Articles 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996”, she makes the personal political. Perfect ground for revising social policy established over several decades. One can see the manoeuvring of principle here.
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