'Useless white male pilots': The RAF discrimination claims
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In a Sky News exclusive, security and defence editor Deborah Haynes has discovered none of those involved in creating the policy have been held accountable.
On the Sky News Daily, Leah Boleto speaks to Deborah about the impact the decisions have had on the men's lives, and whether anyone has been held accountable.
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| 0:00.0 | When you need urgent medical help, but you're unsure where to go, use NHS111 to go from home. |
| 0:06.5 | To an urgent treatment centre. |
| 0:08.5 | Mr Williams, please come through. |
| 0:11.1 | Or a pharmacy. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello, pharmacist will see you now. |
| 0:15.7 | Or if needed, stay where you are and get a call from a nurse, doctor or paramedic. |
| 0:22.7 | NHS-111. |
| 0:24.5 | Call, go online or use the NHS app to be assessed and directed to the right place for you. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Sky News Daily podcast with me, Leah Belletto. |
| 0:35.8 | Now, a year ago, this month, our security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes, |
| 0:41.3 | well, she broke a story about the Royal Air Force unlawfully discriminating against white men. |
| 0:46.6 | This was all in a drive to hit diversity targets. |
| 0:50.2 | Now, initially, they denied any wrongdoing. |
| 0:53.0 | But finally, after an inquiry, the new RAF boss has apologised. |
| 1:00.2 | And now white men derided as useless white male pilots who fouled in their applications to join the RAF, |
| 1:08.2 | well, they say they want their rejected applications reviewed. |
| 1:12.9 | So many lives would have been affected by it. |
| 1:16.0 | Some even maybe ruined because it's something some people just dream of the whole lives. |
| 1:22.4 | And for there to be no action, nothing really done about it. |
| 1:25.8 | Just an apology. It just feels very cheap. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm pleased to say we're joined in the studio by our security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes. |
| 1:37.3 | This is Deborah, a bombshell story that you've been working on for the past year. |
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