Labour is set to pledge support to aspiring civil servants of ethnic minority backgrounds later this week.

As part of its One Nation campaign the party is promising to fast-track black and minority ethnic (BME) candidates into the Civil Service if it gets into power.

“Labour would make sure kids from working-class backgrounds can help run the country by busting open Whitehall,” reads one of Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Dugher will say to the Institute for Public Policy Research tomorrow.