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Lester Holloway

Government needs to help push open boardroom doors to BAME talent

By Lester Holloway | Thu 29th October 2015 - 10:48 am

I welcome Vince Cable’s article in the London Evening Standard yesterday on the need for more ethnic diversity in Britain’s FTSE-100 boardrooms.

This is long overdue. British businesses are missing out on diverse talent that could take their companies, and the economy, forward.

In an increasingly competitive global economy we cannot afford to waste the talent that exists in BAME communities.

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