Blue-chip boards set 2021 target for ending all-white status

Britain's leading public companies should have at least one non-white director by 2021, a Government-backed report will demand next week. Sky News has learnt that a review lasting nearly two years chaired by Sir John Parker, the City grandee, has concluded that FTSE-100 boardrooms are insufficiently representative of their workforces, customer bases and supply chains. The report will contain the most significant recommendations so far aimed at bolstering the ethnic diversity of British companies