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Boris Johnson appointed a businessman who was named and shamed by the government for paying workers below the minimum wage as a commissioner on race and ethnic disparities — and the rest are not much better, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Boris Johnson has a new commission on race and ethnic disparities

THE PRIME MINISTER announced a new commission on race and ethnic disparities in June, saying it was inspired by “the many thousands of people who have joined the Black Lives Matter movement.”

In July Johnson announced the commissioners who, he said, would “examine inequality in the UK, across the whole population.”

But one of the 10 commissioners, businessman Aftab Chughtai, had been publicly attacked by the government for failing to pay the minimum wage.

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