Three in four black Brits ‘don’t believe they have the same human rights as white people’

THREE-quarters of black people do not believe they have the same human rights as white people, a Commons’ poll has found.

Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has published its research ahead of a hearing on the issue today.

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The majority of respondents (85%) also did not believe that as a black person they would be treated the same by the police as a white person.

The survey, which saw 515 black people aged over 16 provide answers, was conducted between July 29 and August 12.

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The majority, 61% of respondents, were from the Greater London area, said pollster ClearView Research.

A total of 3% were from Wales, 1% from Scotland and none were from Northern Ireland

It followed a series of Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a black man in Minnesota, US.

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