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THE government’s LGBT advisory panel has been disbanded after members resigned in protest at Tory policies, Downing Street confirmed yesterday.
The panel will be replaced with a new body, No 10 indicated. Panellists’ terms were due to expire on March 31, but a number of members quit early.
Those remaining have not had their terms renewed and details of a replacement panel will be set out “in due course.”
The move triggered accusations that the government was failing to rebuild trust with LGBT communities.
In March, panel member Jayne Ozanne quit, citing delays to a ban on so-called “conversion therapy” among her many complaints.
She was followed by James Morton, who had reportedly been “very concerned for several months” that Equalities Minister Liz Truss and her junior ministers were “not committed to LGBT equality.”
Ellen Murray, the third person to quit the panel, wrote on Twitter that she had decided to leave “due to the government’s persistent and worsening hostility towards our community in a myriad of areas.”
Downing Street rejected suggestions that the government was not interested in issues affecting LGBT people.
