Culture Secretary blocks appointment of BAME woman onto Channel 4 Board but approves 4 white men - why?

Culture Secretary blocks appointment of BAME woman onto Channel 4 Board but approves 4 white men - why?

Pressure is growing on Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and MP for Staffordshire Moorlands, after she made the unusual decision of blocking the appointment of an Ofcom-recommended candidate onto the Channel 4 Board.  

Compounding the situation is the fact that the candidate-in-question, Althea Efunshile, former Deputy CEO of Arts Council England, is a female BAME applicant - while all other recomendees, white men, were accepted. 

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