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Channel 4 diversity workshop 'invites' white comic Maureen Younger to a 'workshop for black comedians'


Channel 4's diversity drive took an unexpected turn as comedian Maureen Younger said she was invited to a workshop aimed at Black female comics.

Channel 4's diversity drive took an unexpected turn as comedian Maureen Younger said she was invited to a workshop aimed at Black female comics. But in Channel 4's subtitles of the speech, the phrase was changed to become 'people of colour', with the video then being shared widely online by people insisting the wrongly-reported comments were racist. Party chairman James Cleverly tweeted: 'Boris has used the phrase 'people of talent' many times during this election campaign in relation to our points based immigration policy.'

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