Will Britain Ever Have A Black Prime Minister?

David Harewood is one of Britain’s leading black actors and a political campaigner. He made it from a working class background to Hollywood - but how difficult would it be for a black child to make it to our country’s top job? Would they face greater hurdles than any other child?

To find out, David travels across the UK and explores whether the system has obstacles - from unconscious or institutional bias to a child's economic background - and whether these factors could make it tougher for black people to make it to Britain’s top professions. His journey takes him from a nursery in Birmingham, via Oxford all the way to Parliament and Downing Street.

His findings aren’t just anecdotal - the BBC has commissioned research from Economics and Inequalities Statistician, Dr. Faiza Shaheen. She has studied the data exclusively for the documentary and has worked out the differences in life chances between black and white children.

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