Government figures indicate that sexual minorities made up nearly 3% of the skilled trade workforce in the capital.

Nationwide over one-in-six skilled tradespeople identify as non-heterosexual. 

London’s position as the most culturally and demographically diverse city in the UK, contributes to its more inclusive trades workforce.

The North East ranked as the least inclusive region.

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Keir Starmer has made Croydon West MP Sarah Jones, the new construction minster. 

Jones is going to be busy, working as minister of state at the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, as well as the Department for Business & Trade.

Jones is on record as opposing the permitted development rights, a policy designed to encourage new housing unfettered by planning constraints and popular with a lot of developers.

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Nick Tofield, a young sparkie from Bromsgrove has had £5 grand’s worth of kit stolen from a site in London. Thieves drilled their way through a steel cabinet which held Tofield‘s kit and that of two apprentices. 

Tofield and the other victims have now started a GoFundMe page to try and replace some of the equipment and enable him to get back to work.

The Metropolitan Police is investigating, but Tofield criticised its response to the theft, telling his local paper “they haven’t really done anything”.

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