BLACK voters’ rights campaigner Simon Woolley brought trade unionists to their feet yesterday as he recounted how waves of racist backlash to his electoral registration campaign only made it stronger.

Operation Black Vote (OBV) promotes political education, participation and representation in black and ethnic minority communities.

Speaking to the TUC black workers’ conference on its last day, director Mr Woolley said that OBV’s new voter registration campaign aimed to “grab our society by the jugular by reverting the monstrosity that was the minstrels.”