According to census data; 82% of the UK population are white, so the vast majority of applicants in the UK will be white: Out of 10 applicants, 8.2 will be white and 1.8 will be BAME.
So what is this bloke Harwin on about? Why does he want to artificially change the recruitment proportions of the RAF? What will that achieve, operationally?
Artificially skewing recruitment racial proportions is racist, which I didn't think was allowed? Skewing the recruitment gender proportions is sexist; ditto.
If there is a problem - say, no female or BAME applicants at all - then the place to change teenager's perceptions about future working life and careers is at home and at school. At school, our careers advice was a 10 minute chat with a disinterested person in the last weeks of our last year. Far too little and far too late.
Careers and future working life need to be thought about and discussed well before then. Perhaps that happens now?