Values of UK Black communities ‘more aligned with Tories than Labour’

Festus Akinbusoye, police and crime commissioner for Bedfordshire, has co-founded group to improve Conservatives’ relations with UK’s African-Caribbean communities. Photograph: Festus Akinbusoye/Twitter

Black communities are more aligned with the values of the Conservative party than Labour, according to Britain’s only Black police and crime commissioner.

Speaking to the Guardian, Festus Akinbusoye, who recently co-founded an organisation aimed at improving the Conservative party’s “toxic” brand and its relations with the UK’s African-Caribbean communities, said the party was doing “nowhere near enough” to tap into the Black British electorate.