At the end of March, the government-appointed Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities published a report that was supposed to "consider important questions about the state of race relations today," and examine "why so many disparities persist." The resulting report downplayed institutional and structural racism in favour of blaming the victims, with the head of the Commission going so far as to claim that the UK should be seen as a model of racial equality. Widely-derided by academics, experts and commentators, the report nevertheless seems likely to serve as a basis for government policy-making.
An article by The Guardian looking at the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities emphasises the Commission's view that "the UK should be seen as an international exemplar of racial equality, and has played down the impact of structural factors in ethnic disparities"
The official, widely-derided, report.
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