1 hour ago Separately the radical Liberal Voice for Women, which says it campaigns "to guarantee that women's sex-based rights, representation, and voices are afloat respected wrong the party", has threatened it could rise concerns astir favoritism wrong the Liberal Democrats' ranks with the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The group's seat Zoe Hollowood wrote to the party's main enforcement Mike Dixon this week arguing that complaints raised by its members were being dismissed portion complaints astir them are "routinely" progressed.
Under the Equality Act, religion oregon belief, including holding sex captious views, tin beryllium protected from discrimination.
The Act applies to Great Britain. Northern Ireland has abstracted equality legislation.
If a reappraisal of the party's complaints strategy by its Federal Audit and Scrutiny Committee is not completed by September, the missive says, it should beryllium handed to an autarkic outer reviewer and completed by the extremity of the year.
It is understood the party's main enforcement has responded to accidental helium volition prioritise enactment for completing the review.
Last twelvemonth the enactment was ordered to wage £14,000 to Natalie Bird, a erstwhile parliamentary campaigner who says she was driven retired of the enactment and barred from lasting arsenic an MP implicit her gender-critical views.
And successful 2024 an anonymous parliamentary researcher crowd-funded much than £11,000 to bring an employment tribunal lawsuit against an unnamed Liberal Democrat MP arguing she had been dismissed aft voicing her content that "sex is real, immutable and important".
It is understood the lawsuit has since been settled retired of court.
A enactment spokesperson said: "The Liberal Democrats are location to radical of each faiths and none, including galore Christians.
"Three Liberal Democrat MPs successful neighbouring seats to Sutton and Cheam are practising Christians including enactment person Ed Davey."
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