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| The Cabinet photo where there are more purple ties than non-white faces | The Cabinet photo where there are more purple ties than non-white faces |
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| Theresa May's first offical Cabinet photo has been released – and people are pointing out a glaring problem with it. | Theresa May's first offical Cabinet photo has been released – and people are pointing out a glaring problem with it. |
| Only two people in the new Cabinet are from BAME backgrounds: Sajid Javid and Priti Patel. | Only two people in the new Cabinet are from BAME backgrounds: Sajid Javid and Priti Patel. |
| The criticism was immediate: | |
| ... as were the comments about the "right-wing" fashion on show | |
| Around 14 per cent of the UK population is black and minority ethnic, but only 9 per cent of the cabinet is. | |
| Yet Theresa May has double the number of BAME ministers than her predecessor. | |
| In David Cameron's Cabinet, Sajid Javid was the only one. | |
| A report in April demonstrated that only 6 per cent of staff in the Cabinet office are from BAME backgrounds, making it the least diverse workforce of all the ministerial departments. | |
| The problem extends beyond the Cabinet. Only 13 out of 46 governmental departments have any BAME ministers or executives. | |
| In 2015, a Government commissioned report revealed that black and Asian civil servants were routinely discriminated by the "old boys network" in Whitehall. | |
| The study found ethnic minority staff were marked lower in performance reviews and did not always have equal access to promotion. |