The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday compared the Church of England's treatment of black people to how churches treated Jews in Nazi Germany.

The Most Reverend Justin Welby said he was ashamed of his Church's attitude to black people and declared it 'deeply institutionally racist'.

During a debate on the Windrush generation at the Church's parliament, the General Synod, Mr Welby said he was 'personally sorry to those who have been affected' by racism.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the church remains 'deeply institutionally racist'

He said: 'I have often wondered how the German church in the 1930s managed to ignore what happened to the Jews.

'I think they didn't really notice, they just took it as normal, and perhaps that's what we have done in the way we have behaved since Windrush.'

The archbishop decribed the Church's behaviour as shocking and deeply shaming and said he was ashamed that he wasn't previously aware of his 'white privileges and advantages'.

He said justice has not been done and is still not being done. He added: 'Unless we reform now we will still be having this conversation in 20 years.'