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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thomas Kingsley

RAF recruitment head quit ‘over order to prioritise women and ethnic minorities over white men’

PA

The RAF’s head of recruitment resigned after refusing to follow a diversity order to prioritise women and ethnic minority candidates over white men, it is claimed.

The group captain who heads up the 450-person recruitment team, reportedly told her boss in an email on 4 August she thought the order to allocate slots on RAF training courses based on gender or ethnicity was “unlawful.”

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