Just 4.6% of people in prominent public positions in Manchester are Black, according to wide-ranging analysis, prompting leading politicians and campaigners to call for radical action to address the “scandalous” lack of representation.
The number of Black people in Manchester in the most powerful and influential positions in politics, sport, education, arts, business and health is significantly unrepresentative of the city’s Black population, which stands at 14.8%.
This is in contrast to Liverpool and Bristol, other English cities with long-established Black communities and a significant historical relationship with the business of slavery, where Black representation in prominent city roles is in keeping with the underlying makeup of the population as recorded in the 2021 census.
