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NEW: BuzzFeed News has uncovered comments by Dominic Raab in which said gender pay audits should be shelved, the Government Equalities Office abolished and argued women enjoy an “unfair advantage” over men at work

We asked him if he still believes that:

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In 2010 Dominic Raab said “the government should shelve gender pay audits”

Today he welcomes the reduction in the gender pay gap but does not say he has changed his view

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In 2012 Raab called for the Government Equalities Office to be abolished. The GEO leads Whitehall’s work on women and equalities legislation

Today he does not say he has changed his view. But he has defended his record on women’s rights:

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Raab said in 2013 that men suffer at work as “women now enjoying equal opportunity gain an unfair advantage because of historic discrimination that did not affect them”

He says today he will put “true gender equality” at the heart of his agenda in No10 buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/do…

Dominic Raab on the Equalities and Human Rights Commission:
- it is racist and classist to white male middle-class MPs
- it suffers from “female domination”

Today he says it is right to call out “double standards” and “hypocrisy” in political life

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The Raab campaign has been on the back foot over his comments on women’s rights over the last couple of weeks

Here is an in context look at his past statements and his detailed response to them today: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/do…