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Westminster City Council has dropped the term BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) from its communications.
The local authority has announced it will instead use 'global majority' as a replacement expression.
It follows wider questions asked about describing minorities during the 2020 protests for the Black Lives Matters movement.
Westminster Council is also setting up anti-racism training for staff, while its Director of Communities earns a salary ranging from £106,518 to £147,114, news blog Guido Fawkes reports.
A council spokesman announced: 'Four years on from the founding of its Black Asian and Multiple Ethnic network, Westminster Council has committed to serious action to make its organisation more diverse and inclusive.
Westminster City Council has dropped the term BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) from its communications, with 'global majority' as a replacement (Pictured: City Hall)
'At the Black, Asian and Multiple Ethnic staff network's Annual General Meeting at City Hall, the council made three key commitments.'
These commitments include 'to be an anti-racist organisation', to 'continue sustained action to remove pay gaps' by 2025, and 'to adopt the term 'Global Majority' instead of BAME'.
Stuart Love, Chief Executive at Westminster City Council said: Our Global Majority Network has challenged,
