Class Unit in Equality Office

A new government 'class unit' (announced by Bridget Phillipson in the UK's Office for Equality and Opportunity) institutionalizes class as an explicit axis of equality work, examining disparities including — but not limited to — 'white working‑class' outcomes. It signals an operational pivot: equality infrastructure will now attempt to measure and target class gaps rather than treating class as subsumed under other identity categories. — If adopted more widely, embedding 'class units' inside equality bureaucracies could reorient progressive policy from symbolic identity battles toward material redistribution and electoral outreach to left‑behind communities.