23/10/2020
The top selling BAME newspaper The Voice reports that just one in two hundred executive directors of top notch FTSE 100 companies is from a black background, even though most of these corporate giants are situated in London, where around forty per cent of the population is black or from a minority ethnic background. The research was undertaken by Operation Black Vote, which aims to empower the African-Caribbean community to take part in the democratic process and ensure that reactionary voices are challenged in political debate. The FTSE 100 is a list of the largest 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange and their performance is a key economic indicator, often cited on news bulletins as showing how well we as a country are performing in world markets. Boards of large companies too, are overwhelmingly white, male and heterosexual. Operation Black Vote found that just 9.2 per cent of the governing boards of FTSE 100 companies were black or Asian.
