Government says it does not use BAME because it excludes white minorities

Downing Street has backed the scrapping of the use of BAME because it ignores people from white minority and other white-mixed backgrounds and fails to ‘treat people as individuals’, it was revealed today. No 10 says it won’t use the umbrella term after Boris Johnson’s racial disparities commission said the term Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) should … Read more