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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helena Horton and Aamna Mohdin

GB News commentator to sue charity for not offering internships to white people

Sophie Corcoran, pictured in 2022
Sophie Corcoran said she had been ‘exploring a legal career’ and applied to the internship scheme run by the 10,000 Interns Foundation programme and the Bar Council but was rejected. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

An influencer is taking a charity that organises internships for black and minority ethnic people to court because they do not organise schemes for white people.

Sophie Corcoran, a GB News commentator, applied to a programme the 10,000 Interns Foundation was running with the Bar Council. She said she was “shocked to discover that the scheme is restricted to applicants of a particular racial background”.

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