Jeremy Corbyn vows to increase teaching of black history in schools

Jeremy Corbyn has announced proposals to increase the amount of black history taught in schools, along with the history of the British empire, colonialism and slavery.

A Labour government would improve the teaching of the subject, potentially including it in the national curriculum, party sources said.

Corbyn said it was vital for future generations of schoolchildren to understand the role that black Britons had played in the nation’s history and the struggle for racial equality.