The chief of the RAF has apologised after an inquiry found a diversity drive discriminated against white men in favour of women and ethnic minorities.
According to a report commissioned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), in 2020 and 2021, 161 candidates, who were either women or from ethnic minority backgrounds, were accelerated into training places ahead of white males.
The RAF said it accepts the diversity drive amounted to positive discrimination, adding it will not “make the same mistakes again.”
Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton, the new RAF chief, said he apologises “unreservedly to all those affected.”
The positive discrimination took place as the force attempted to reach its own diversity target for 40 percent of all new recruits to be women and 20 percent to be from ethnic minorities by 2030….