Tesco Chairman: White males are an endangered Boardroom species

Tesco's Chairman has said that he believes white men are becoming an endangered species at the top of British businesses.

John Allan, who sits alongside nine other men and three women on the Tesco Board, made the comments at a business conference last week - The Independent reports.

He said: “For a thousand years men have got most of these jobs. The pendulum has swung very significantly the other way and will do for the foreseeable future”.

“If you are a white male, tough. You are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard.”