Race equality chief faces legal challenge over appointment

Exclusive: anti-racism group cites Tony Sewell’s attempt to downplay institutional racism as grounds for dispute

The academic chosen to lead the prime minister’s new racial equality commission, despite having cast doubt on the effects of institutional racism and making homophobic comments in the past, is facing a legal challenge to his appointment.

Tony Sewell, the former head of an education charity, is Downing Street’s choice to lead the commission it set up in July as a response to the global Black Lives Matter protests, through which demonstrators have demanded racial equality.

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