UN group to study British ‘Afrophobia’

UNITED NATIONS inspectors visiting Britain to investigate discrimination have a history of describing liberal democracies as structurally racist, it has emerged.

The UN working group of experts on people of African descent is on a visit to the UK to look at racism and “Afrophobia” in this country.

Over the past decade, the group has produced a series of critical reports on countries, including Ireland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada and Spain.

Australia was told its black population were victims of a “siege of racism”, while Sweden was accused of being “blinded to the racism in its midst”. A Whitehall source said: “The fact that this rabble only ever finds racism wherever they go shows how self-serving they are.”

Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister, will hold a meeting with the inspectors today, which she will use to defend the UK’S record.

Ireland was criticised over the lack of adequate redress for victims of racial discrimination and “systemic racism” in the country’s childcare institutions between the 1940s and the 1990s.

In Switzerland, the group found that “racial profiling and police controls of black people humiliate, criminalise and stigmatise”.