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Jacob Rees-Mogg: Diversity officers in civil service were 'created by the woke for the woke'

Mr Rees-Mogg added that 91,000 civil servants need to be cut to return to 2016 levels.

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Jacob Reeg-Mogg has told Sky News that dedicated diversity and inclusion officers in the civil service 'don't do anything useful', adding that diversity is 'the job of people making employment decisions'.

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