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What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind | John Harris

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Kemi Badenoch launched a 40 -page treatise titled Conservatism in Crisis : Rise of the Bureaucratic Class at the party’s recent conference.

The message fits with the nostalgic tone of post-Brexit Conservatism: it is time to pull yourself together and maintain a stiff upper lip.

But there is an even bigger question: where, for most autistic people, are the “economic advantages and protections” the pamphlet bemoans? A recent inquiry led the former Tory minister Robert Buckland found that only three in 10 autistic adults have a job.

The number of people employed by England ’s councils has been reduced by 31.5% since 2012 .

Families of autistic children spend much of their lives dealing with unreturned calls, missed deadlines and a system of arbitrary rationing.

Almost one in six children wait more than four years for an autism diagnosis.

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