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Support for Diversity Schemes Plummets Amid Controversy

9/26/2025

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Summary

Story summary

23% view diversity schemes as detrimental to white people. 15% say they harm the working class.
Support fell from 62% in 2023 to over 50% in 2025.
Survey by More in Common, the University of Oxford, and UCL Policy Lab included 4,045 participants.
52% see DEI schemes as beneficial. Experts urge EDI to be inclusive and rooted in British values.

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Story summary

23% view diversity schemes as detrimental to white people. 15% say they harm the working class.
Support fell from 62% in 2023 to over 50% in 2025.
Survey by More in Common, the University of Oxford, and UCL Policy Lab included 4,045 participants.
52% see DEI schemes as beneficial. Experts urge EDI to be inclusive and rooted in British values.