ALL legislation under a Labour government would be “equality proofed” to prevent anything like the Windrush scandal happening again, shadow women and equalities secretary Dawn Butler said yesterday.

On the last day of Labour conference she said that it would be carried out by a stand-alone equalities department, which the current government does not have.

New laws would include up to 10 days paid leave for domestic abuse survivors, allowing people to bring forward cases on multiple grounds of discrimination and strengthening the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

It would also integrate the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, ensure British sign language is given full legal status and supply free sanitary products for women in public institutions.

Ms Butler condemned the Tories for continuing to erode and remove equality laws and for their “hostile environment” for people on benefits and state pensions as well as migrants.

She added that this has seen women lose £1,400 a year on Universal Credit, care appointments reduced to 15 minutes and women born in the 1950s cheated out of their pensions.