Samir Shah

Race is not an issue in the UK anymore

For the past decade Samir Shah has been chair of the Runnymede Trust, devoted to studying ethnicity. Now, he says, the real problem in Britain isn’t so much racism, but "cultural cloning".

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Dr Samir Shah CBE is the Vice Chair of History Matters at Policy Exchange. He previously served on the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.

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