Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA government-ordered review of racism in the UK has been accused of "glorifying" the slave trade. Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary Marsha De Cordova accused the paragraph on slavery of "glorifying" the slave trade. But he said "the evidence of actual institutional racism, that wasn’t there, we didn’t find that in our report”. Writing in Prospect magazine in 2010, Dr Sewell, an international education consultant, said: "Much of the supposed evidence of institutional racism is flimsy." The Government to move away from using the term ‘BAME’ and instead focus on disparities between specific ethnic groups

Source: Daily Mirror March 31, 2021 12:56 UTC