Angela Rayner's department spends thousands in taxpayers' cash on woke diversity training
Her housing department splashed £47,272 on the coaching — including nearly £5,000 to a firm that advises on the dangers of banter at work.
Inclusive Employers Ltd teaches how to 'decolonise the workplace' and offers 'inclusion allies' training.
The Deputy PM's department refused to give full details of what this training involved when quizzed in parliamentary questions.
But the company provides courses on unconscious bias and micro aggressions, according to its website.
It warns workplace 'banter, when unchecked, can escalate into harmful behaviour including bullying, harassment and discrimination'.
The website also provides tips on how to 'navigate the anti-woke backlash' and suggests many Baby Boomers are anti-woke.
It states boomers 'may be uncomfortable with the rapid shifts and evolving language associated with being woke' and have a 'nostalgia for the values and beliefs' of the past.
The Tories, who helped to uncover the near £50,000 spend, bashed it as a waste of taxpayers' cash.
Shadow cabinet office minister Mike Wood said: 'Angela Rayner seems determined to push through her divisive Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda by any means necessary — even though it's clearly not in the national interest.
'This is part of a wider pattern of taxpayers' money wasted across Whitehall under Labour on woke virtue-signalling. It must be stopped.'
Ms Rayner is in charge of steering the new Employment Rights Bill, which massively beefs up the powers of trade unions, through parliament.
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It will force businesses to recognise union 'equality representatives' and let them have paid time off for their trade union work.
A government spokesman said: 'The vast majority of this spend went on accredited, practical training to help managers better support disabled colleagues.'
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