The map which shows Europe's most racist countries - and Britain isn't one of them

Britain has been criticised for becoming a less tolerant nations since last year’s Brexit vote, but new data shows that it is one of the least racist countries in Europe.

Or, at least it is according to one new measure.

A map shared by Mind Hacks used European-wide data to measure one area of implicit racism, namely how easily White Europeans associate black faces with negative ideas.

Using data culled from more than 288,000 people across the continent, collected by Harvard researchers between 2002 and 2015, the research was able to show which countries are more racist when it comes to this one measure.

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And Britain did not come out too badly at all.

A coloured map of the results was drawn up from the data.

Blue showed low levels of racial bias, while red revealed higher levels.

Britain, like other countries in Northern Europe such as Belgium, Sweden and Denmark showed low levels of racial bias.

However, countries towards the east – and some in the south – fared less well.

Portugal, Italy and Slovakia were all coloured bright red.

Other nations, including Finland, France and Germany had more mixed results.

The map was based on responses to the Implicit Association Test – a reaction-based psychological test designed to measure implicit racial bias.

It comes at a time of an apparent shift in European politics to the right, demonstrated not only in the UK but other countries including France, where this weekend they could elect the former National Front leader and far-right Marine Le Pen as President.