Home Office officials have sparked a diplomatic row after falsely claiming Poland has official “LGBT-free zones”.
A senior Polish MP has accused civil servants of falling for the “propaganda of a trivial radical Left activist” after a memo was posted on the department’s intranet denouncing various countries for their stances on gay rights, including Poland.
The memo on May 17, marking “International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia”, was posted by Spectrum, a group which represents gay civil servants in the Home Office.
Kacper Plazynski MP, the Head of the EU Affairs Committee in the Polish Sejm, told The Telegraph: “It’s diplomatically enormously inappropriate for a unit within the British Home Office to criticise the Polish constitution and how it defines marriage.”
The Telegraph can also reveal that Spectrum advertises links to the controversial LGBT charities Mermaids and Stonewall on their intranet page as “external support” available to all civil servants in the department.
Last August, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who was at that point the Attorney General, criticised Stonewall and diversity schemes in her department, saying Britain “doesn’t need woke commissars policing our thoughts”.
In 2022, former Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, vowed to crack down on government funding of charities like Mermaids.
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