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Chuka Umunna and Vince Cable: There are more women on boards, now tackle ethnic diversity too

It is rare that an issue can defeat the partisanship that characterises our politics but the campaign to transform business leadership in this country to reflect modern Britain has bucked the trend. In 2010, a Liberal Democrat Business Secretary in the Conservative-led Coalition Government commissioned Mervyn Davies, Labour peer and businessman, to lead a review into the gender diversity of corporate boards. Women then made up just 12.5 per cent of boards and there were 21 all-male boards in the FTSE 100.

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