The "socio-economic duty", which was stalled when the coalition came into power, was rubbished by May who said the coalition would instead enforce an approach to equalities that rejects "political correctness and social engineering".
In a speech at the Coin Street Community Centre in South London, May said the government would introduce plans to tackle inequality by treating people as individuals rather than labelling them in groups, and end the "top-down" approach of imposing equality measures.
These plans according to May include a measure in the Freedom Bill, which will allow people who were prosecuted for having consensual gay sex at a time when this was illegal to apply to have their convictions deleted from criminal records.
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