1 in 4 UK Councils Promoting Critical Race Theory-Led Policies: Study

During a march from Notting Hill to Hyde Park, people hold up placards in support of the Black Lives Matter movement as they take part in the inaugural Million People March to put pressure on the UK government to change the UK's institutional and systemic racism, in London, on Aug. 30, 2020. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

A report has painted a “troubling picture” of the ideological drift in how equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and anti-racist policies are being implemented by local councils across England and Wales.

“The new anti-racism, which asserts that Britain is a systematically racist society which automatically discriminates against racial minorities, is being legitimised in schools through the reframing of equality policies by local councils,” said Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, CEO of Don’t Divide Us (DDU), an organisation set up to take a stand against the UK’s “divisive obsession with people’s racial identity.”