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Diversity tsar, Trevor Phillips, calls for change in equality law to allow positive action

Pressure is mounting on the government to change the law to allow employers to take "special measures" in favouring ethnic minority job applicants.

Trevor Phillips, who takes up his role as the UK's diversity tsar this week, has again insisted positive discrimination is necessary to end under-representation in certain professions.