Britain is no longer a country where the system is “deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities” and very few inequalities are directly to do with race, a major review of racial disparities has concluded.
The review, carried out by ten commissioners appointed by the government last year at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement with its antiracism protests around the world, criticised the “confusing” way in which the term “institutional racism” has been applied.”
But it added that it did not deny that racism was a “real force” in the UK that needed to be taken seriously.
Critics said the report was political and divisive and designed to play down people’s experiences of racism.
In his foreword to the document, Tony Sewell, an educationalist
