THE TELEGRAPH: Britain risks becoming more racist as the recession increases resentment and division, the head of the equalities watchdog has warned.
Trevor Phillips claimed race relations have improved in the last 15 years and said we should no longer use the phrase "institutionally racist" to describe companies and public services.
However, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission added that this progress could be wiped out by the worsening economic crisis if, for example, poor Britons lose out to better qualified immigrants in the battle for scarce jobs. >>> By Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent | Monday, January 19, 2009
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