Police taking the knee or wearing rainbow lanyards can undermine public confidence and lead to accusations of a lack of impartiality, a watchdog has warned. While a particular badge worn by an ...

In a separate development, Scottish Parliament staff are no longer allowed to wear rainbow lanyards - or other accessories that show support for social movements - at Holyrood. All staff must now ...

And around her: rainbow, rainbow, rainbow. This week: Holyrood bans rainbow lanyards. What happened? The official explanation, delivered by the MSP Claire Baker, who sits on the parliament’s ...

“CIA is also apparently banning lanyards that have to do with affinity groups. Women's Council had to take down website & ...

Esther McVey has announced a ban on rainbow-coloured and other “random” lanyards in the civil service as part of a new series of measures for a Tory “war on woke”. Rishi Sunak’s common ...

Ms McVey, who attends Cabinet as a minister without portfolio, said civil servants should wear “standard design” lanyards – appearing to indicate that the colourway used to express support ...

To most FDA members, wearing a rainbow lanyard is not a political statement at all. In their view, it is more like wearing a poppy in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday, a neutral gesture of respect.

The Labour leader said Mr Sunak had been focusing too much on "the war against lanyards", rather than on issues like the "prison system in chaos". Discussions around rainbow lanyards have swirled ...

Newly published guidance on diversity and inclusion in the Civil Service does not directly reference a ban on rainbow lanyards worn by staff that Esther McVey had suggested. The Cabinet Office ...