THE Oxford Union admitted it has been “institutionally racist” after it was confronted by a coalition of the university’s equalities societies and local campaigns on Monday night.

The prestigious debating society hit the front pages last week when a picture of posters advertising a “Colonial Comeback” cocktail party at the union went viral online.

But, under pressure from groups including anti-racist movement Rhodes Must Fall, the Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality (Crae) and the Black Students’ Union, Oxford Union leaders passed a motion “to acknowledge that the union is institutionally racist.”