TUC anti-racism taskforce head Patrick Roach slammed “segregation — what some would call apartheid” in the British labour market as he addressed Wales TUC today.

At the height of the Covid pandemic black workers were three to four times more likely to die from the virus and “post-pandemic — if we can call it that — black workers bear the brunt of the cost-of-living crisis.”

Unemployment was now more than twice as high among black people as white people and black workers were paid 24 per cent less on average, meaning the real-terms pay cuts being forced on workers by the British government would hit them even harder.