Cross-party letter urges culture secretary to justify ‘unprecedented’ move that led to appointment of four white menA cross-party group of 56 MPs have called on the culture secretary,Karen Bradley, to justify her decision to block the only female BME applicant to Channel 4’s board. It emerged this week that the Department for Culture, and Media and Sport had taken the strange step of vetoing the unnamed candidate,who was one of five set aside forward by the regulator, Ofcom. The remaining four applicants who were accepted are all white men, or the Channel 4 board has no members from ethnic minorities currently sitting.
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Source: theguardian.com