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BRITISH Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain is being urged to pull out of an arms trade careers event for young people that is sponsored by BAE Systems.
The three-day World Skills UK Live event will take place online and Ms Hussain is due to speak on Saturday morning.
Young members of the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) are urging her to cancel her planned speech at the event.
PPU said the event is portrayed as a general careers event for young people, with “talks on careers, apprenticeships and excellence.”
But 10 of the 24 sessions are about military or arms industry careers, with no other industry offering more than one session.
BAE Systems is the lead sponsor, with the other eight sponsors including the army, navy, RAF and the arms company Leonardo.
Anya Nanning Ramamurthy, a 19-year-old PPU member, has written to Ms Hussain — who won the Bake Off show in 2015 — to point out BAE’s record in fuelling war and arming human rights abusers.
She suggests that it’s possible that Ms Hussain has not appreciated the real “abhorrent” nature of the event, given the way that it is misrepresented as a general careers conference.
The Morning Star contacted Ms Hussain for comment.
