A Daily Mail executive editor has said fewer than one in ten editorial staff at the title are from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background.

Ben Taylor has said the newsroom is “not as diverse as we’d like it to be” but is improving amid an industry push for greater representation.

The Mail runs a scholarship for aspiring journalists from a BAME background named after Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who was stabbed to death in a racially-motivated attack in 1993.