Kemi Badenoch dismisses Rachel Reeves' position as first female chancellor as 'low glass ceiling'Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
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00:00The best thing will be when we get to a point where the color of your skin is no more remarkable than the color of your eyes or the color of your hair.
00:07We live in a multiracial country and that is great, but we have to work very hard to make sure that it doesn't become something divisive,
00:15where people see themselves as being part of groups rather than all being British.
00:19So when I hear people say, isn't this remarkable, we have a black female leader of the Conservative Party,
00:24I'm glad because it shows that my country and my party are actually places where it doesn't matter who you are or what you look like,
00:32it's about what the offer is.
00:34What I don't want is for that to be the thing that ends up being talked about.
00:38I find it astonishing that Rachel Reeves keeps talking about how she's the first female Chancellor,
00:43which in my view is a very, very low glass ceiling within the Labour Party,
00:47which she may have smashed, nowhere near as significant as what other women in this country have achieved.