Charlotte Cadden

Former DCI. Co-chair @AllianceLGB Business Forum. Trustee @sexmattersorg. Former Chair of @PoliceSEENUK. Cllr Bromley Cross @BoltonTories

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

Our new report, Getting back on track, explains how the Equality Act provides the legal framework for protecting and providing for women and girls in sport.

We explain the law on sport in layperson’s terms, and call on government ministers, sports councils and sports national governing bodies to protect the female category for women and girls.

Yesterday we launched the report in the @UKHouseofLords. As @MForstater said in her speech, for the past 15 years legal misunderstandings have removed the focus, opportunity and resources women and girls need to thrive in sport.

Organisations, sports leaders and public bodies do not need new legal tools to protect women’s sport. They just need to use the legal tools that already exist.

Protecting, celebrating and promoting women and girls in sport isn’t just what the law allows. It’s also the right and fair thing to do.

Read the report: https://t.co/SN6eOOuo4O

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

The difference between the Conservative and the Reform UK approach on this is stark. Badenoch sounds like a leader. Farage appears primarily interested in furthering his own agenda. The right of British politics is becoming increasingly differentiated.

[Charlotte Cadden @Charlotty]

@Mullers1993 @LGBTCons This is who bolted the T onto the Police LGB network. https://t.co/VYIddOGEdk

[Charlotte Cadden @Charlotty]

@LeaderofKCC @christiancalgie Reform supports men in womens’ prisons. That 💯’progressive’ Pride flag dogma right there. Vanessa Frake Reform Prison advisor said so.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Every life matters.

One law. One standard. For everyone. 

This is about justice, for Henry, for his family and for all our children. They deserve better.

[Albie @albieamankona]

Like most Tories, I flirted with voting Reform UK. I nearly voted for them in 2024. I’ve called for @LdnConservative to work with @policylaila to kick Khan out of @MayorofLondon and argued for the right to unite where it can.

But somewhere between becoming a retirement home for failed Tory politicians like @SuellaBraverman and @RobertJenrick, putting forward underwhelming candidates like @RobKenyonReform and @GoodwinMJ, and @nigel_farage and @ZiaYusufUK embracing identity politics for white people, Reform seems to have lost its edge.

What made Reform interesting in 2024 was that it felt like a genuine insurgency. Now it increasingly feels like just another political tribe with a grievance agenda.

For the sake of my friends in the party, I hope they rediscover what made them compelling in the first place.

They were an interesting proposition in 2024. Much less interesting now. Simultaneously, the @Conservatives have become a much more interesting proposition. Much of this is down to @KemiBadenoch, keep up the good work 👍

[Charlotte Cadden @Charlotty]

@jundevahn @KemiBadenoch Happy with rainbow flag. Don’t want same-sex attracted teenagers told they must be the opposite sex & put on a pathway to sterilisation. 🚩

[Charlotte Cadden @Charlotty]

@CCACllrs @confidencenac Fantastic result! Well done Colchester Conservatives!

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Identity politics divides our country whoever is doing it.

The Conservative Party rejects it.

We believe in universalism and equality under the law. We must not treat people differently on the basis of skin colour. We have to build faith and trust in our institutions.

If there is one thing that should come from Henry’s death, it is that we make things better, so that this does not happen to any of our boys again.

That is what I am committed to.

I do not want his death to be in vain.

Let’s do this for Henry. Let’s get this right.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

Every MP who signs the motion tabled by @NadiaWhittomeMP to disapprove the “Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations” is displaying embarrassing ignorance of the law - as well as profound disrespect for the rights of women and girls, and of lesbians and gay men.

Do they even know that the “lesbian interveners” at the Supreme Court helped to secure the rights of homosexual women and men - which would otherwise have been lost?

The Supreme Court established that under the Equality Act, a lesbian is a biological woman who is sexually attracted to other biological women.

It rejected the vile idea that a man bearing a piece of paper with an F can be classified as a lesbian. That was incoherent, the court ruled.

Not just incoherent but a homophobic atrocity. So thanks a bunch, Nadia et al., that you want to turn the clock back on that ruling.

You know perfectly well (or am I assuming too much?) that the EHRC guidance is not the law. It simply helps service providers, associations and those overseeing public functions to apply the law.

But it sends a signal, doesn’t it - it tells people where you stand. You stand in the mud.

Your motion is not just a profound betrayal of so many of your constituents, it’s political madness. @Jonathan_Hinder is right: if you don’t snap out of it, the Labour Party is dead.

[Charlotte Cadden @Charlotty]

@helensaxby11 @SarahLudford I’ve had a good look through but I still can’t see any @Conservatives 🤔

[Helen Saxby @helensaxby11]

A handy list of MPs who don't believe women should be included in the Equality Act and in fact would prefer us to go backwards to a time before the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
https://t.co/DPhusAbJWW

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Should there be basic competence tests for those wishing to sit as MPs? I fear this question kept recurring as I watched various honourable members rise to their feet to make legally illiterate, ignorant, & plain wrong points about the Code of Practice (CoP) in response to the Ministerial statement yesterday.
https://t.co/TmFBCbCXxr (from 16:41)

[Charlotte Cadden @Charlotty]

@SarahLudford It was professionally & financially rewarded in Policing! The more you trampled on the rights of women & girls, the higher the rank you went. Every single Chief Con supported Vanessa Jardine’s illegal, opposite sex, strip search policy.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@tomgordonLD It's the law, Tom.
And as for your disingenuous comments about Mary-Ann Stephenson, I suppose they're at least consistently within the spirit of the disgraceful, legally illiterate performative politicking your Committee subjected her to when she appeared before you.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Sara Sharif.

The Nottingham killer.

The Manchester bomber.

The grooming gangs.

Now Henry Nowak.

We have to unpick the mentality across our public services that says accusations of racism are more important than protecting the public from harm.

The police, social services, mental health services, security guards. These are some of the hardest jobs in society where so much rests on personal judgement. There is no way they can get every call right.

But if we stay the hand of those who are meant to protect the public, if we tie them up in knots with unconscious bias training and Islamophobia definitions, then we are making their jobs even more impossible and we can see from case after case that we are failing to protect the public from serious harm.

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

The Fire Brigades Union does not support the 2010 Equality Act that consolidated all previous sex discrimination legislation.
It wants to remove the legal rights of women & girls fought for over generations to enable their equal participation in public life.
Regressive & sexist.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

He Punished Officers For Telling The Truth. Then He Was Arrested For Stealing From Them.

Mukund Krishna was the first civilian chief executive of the Police Federation of England and Wales. He was a former management consultant born in India who relocated to the UK in 2007 and had no frontline policing experience. He was paid £701,100 a year, more than twice the salary of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and thirty times the salary of a starting constable. Across 2024 and 2025 his total remuneration was £1.4 million. Some of the 145,000 rank and file officers his organisation represented were using food banks to feed their families.

On March 3rd 2026 the Police Federation publicly called for a minimum seven percent pay rise for officers, warning that morale and recruitment were suffering. The following morning Krishna was arrested by the City of London Police's Domestic Corruption Unit on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position. He has now been sacked. He will receive no further payments.

Before his arrest Krishna had used the Police Federation to do two things. Collect £1.4 million across two years. And punish officers who told uncomfortable truths about policing.

Rick Prior, the head of the Metropolitan Police Federation, was suspended in October 2024 after warning publicly that his members were increasingly nervous about challenging people from some ethnic minorities for fear of being labelled racist. His offence was stating precisely what the Henry Nowak case, the West Yorkshire Police sectarian policing story and the Rotherham and Rochdale grooming gang inquiries had all documented independently. Fear of a racism accusation was paralysing British policing. Prior named it. Krishna suspended him.

Richard Cooke was removed as chairman of the West Midlands Police Federation for posting a comment online disputing suggestions his force was institutionally racist. Krishna removed him too.

The High Court ruled both suspensions unlawful and a breach of Article 10 free speech rights. The Police Federation spent more than half a million pounds of its members' money defending the claim. Members who were using food banks. The man authorising that expenditure was collecting £701,100 a year and incurring legal costs exceeding £1 million in 2024 alone.

The problems were visible long before the arrest. In January 2025 Craig Hewitt, the Head of Civil Claims and National Board Member, resigned with a damning email exposing alleged long-standing financial mismanagement. A Tortoise Media investigation found that the federation had used 14 confidentiality agreements in settlements costing more than £700,000 and that multiple senior officials faced disciplinary proceedings after questioning Krishna's approach. Glassdoor reviews from employees described a toxic working environment and a marked increase in questionable dismissals and suspensions of very senior officials.

The pattern is now complete and precisely documented. A civilian management consultant with no policing background was installed as the first chief executive of the organisation representing rank and file officers. He suppressed the officers who named the two tier policing problem. He spent members' money silencing them. Warning signs of financial mismanagement were documented and ignored. And he was arrested the morning after his organisation demanded better pay for officers some of whom could not afford to feed their families.

"Across 2024 and 2025 Krishna's total remuneration was £1.4 million. Some of the 145,000 rank and file officers his organisation represented were using food banks to feed their families."

[Charlotte Cadden @Charlotty]

@JulesMountain @SarahLudford @EdwardJDavey @LibDems @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch Theresa May’s attempt to reform the GRA (ie. allow @stonewalluk’s Self ID plan) in 2017, if successful, would have harmed women & girls’ rights to safety, privacy, dignity & fairness. As I said @Conservatives under new management now & @KemiBadenoch gets it.