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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Alex Holmes

Black men's mental health: a silent crisis

Kemi Badenoch's remarks at the Tory Party conference risk overlooking the harsh realities of the Black British experience. Branding herself as 'anti-woke', she claimed, "Britain is the best country in the world to be Black."

The Black British Voices survey paints a different picture, with 87% of Black Brits feeling they receive subpar healthcare due to a lack of culturally competent services. The survey also revealed only one in ten Black Brits are "definitely proud to be British," while a third of young Black Brits don't see the UK as their long-term home.

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