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Is it time to abolish the monarchy - Recorded live at the Cambridge literary Festival

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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The Royal Household and Quirks

The MODR is exempt from the Equality Act, but other institutions are not. The royal household benchmarks itself against all similar-sized government departments and comes out ahead of the average white or white. I've seen the... What's the diversity of its staff in the royal household? It's higher than the white-hall average. That's a very low bar. There are reasons why when you have legislation that comes forward. And there are things like, you know, yes, they are exempt from what you talked about. So inspectors come into check animals. But it does, doesn't mean that you don't have someone trying to say, oh, I'll just tell them to see

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