Public Sector Diversity Chief On £165,000 Salary Blasted Boris For ‘White Privilege’

The UK’s top-paid public sector diversity chief is a Network Rail employee who earns £164,999 a year and previously shared an article accusing Boris Johnson – who she earns more than – of ‘white privilege’.

Loraine Martins, Network Rail’s director of diversity and inclusion, is responsible for ensuring the network is more ‘open, diverse and inclusive’.

Data released by the government shows Mr Martins is paid a minimum of £160,000 which can rise to a maximum of £164,999, meaning she could earn more than the Prime Minister whose yearly salary is capped at £162,000.

In 2018, she used her Twitter account to share a comment piece from the Guardian which accused Boris Johnson, then foreign secretary, of ‘white privilege’.

And in April 2021, she retweeted a post that accused the government of ‘corruption’, although the retweet has since been removed.

Before joining Network Rail, Ms Martins led a team on ‘equality and inclusion and employment and skills’ during the construction of the Olympic Park ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

She was awarded an MBE for that work and last year made an OBE ‘for her work to improve diversity throughout Network Rail’.

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