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Historically, the fight for racial justice has followed the amazing progress made in the fight for gender equality, particularly in the trade union and Labour movement. Over the last fifteen years and after many years of debate, campaigning…
Now that may seem a strange question for a Party that has both Chuka Umunna and Sadiq Khan in its Shadow Cabinet but something troubling is emerging from the current round of Parliamentary selections. Of the 100 constituencies where Labour…
Over the last several months there have been a number of cases that highlight the way in which Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people are consciously or subconsciously denied, blocked or bullied by mainstream institutions and…
David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, has become the latest Labour MP to suggest applying all-minority ethnic shortlists to future parliamentary selections in order to increase representation for black and minority ethnic (BME) people in…
I recently asked Insight Public Affairs to work with me to compile some data about political parties, their MPs and the racial make-up of the constituencies they represent. The research has just been published by the Guardian and I can only…
Last week Sadiq Khan said he could consider backing all-minority ethnic shortlists, in order to increase the numbers of minority ethnic people in Parliament. We put it to LabourList readers whether they would support the idea. The majority…
Sadiq Khan this week suggested that he would support all-ethnic minority shortlists for Labour parliamentary selections, saying he supports "exploring" the idea, as a way of improving minority ethnic representation in the Commons. Currently…
In the heat of the 2010 election, worried that their candidate was going to lose, election agent Joseph Fitzpatrick wrote in an email: "We need… to explain to the white community how the Asians will take him [Labour MP Phil Woolas] out… If…
The Telegraph ran a disingenuous article early this week citing a Demos report with the headline – ‘Middle class Indians could help the Tories win the General Election’. The Demos report, by Trevor Phillips and Richard Webber, was released…
Not long after he became Prime Minister, Gordon Brown faced a key test of his leadership in 2007: a by-election in Southall was called after the death of Piara Khabra MP. What happened next was nothing short of localised pandemonium. As a…
With the loss of the first black President of South Africa everyone around the world is in mourning one of the biggest icons of public and political life in the 20th century. Mandela not only transcended African politics but was the moral…
Back in September, Ed Miliband declared his ambition to create a mass membership Party and said “change is the only way to build a truly One Nation party so we can build a One Nation country.” Like other members, I welcomed the prospect of…
