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David Cameron told the Conservative party conference in September: ”I want us to end discrimination and finish the fight for real equality in our country today.” He continued: “people with white sounding names are nearly twice as likely to get call-backs for jobs than people with ethnic sounding names.” Was he aware that discrimination against ethnic minority job applicants at similar levels was revealed in a study carried out by Political and Economic Planning as long ago as 1967? Yet since then anti-discrimination law has proliferated. Does this mean it hasn’t worked?
