Army to relax security checks for recruits in diversity drive

The British Army wants to relax security checks for recruits from overseas to boost diversity and inclusion, The Telegraph can reveal. Britain’s armed forces have consistently failed to hit recruitment targets and are looking overseas to boost ethnic minority representation, which currently stands at 14 per cent of the regular army. A document leaked to this paper, titled The British Army’s Race Action Plan, notes that the Army “struggles to attract talent from ethnic minority backgrounds into the officer corps”. People from Commonwealth countries can serve in the British Army, however, the race plan notes that “There are only 131 non-UK regular officers” of which “28 were recorded as an ethnic minority” with the rest being white Irish or white Commonwealth.