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After the 2015 general election, 41 MPs from an ethnic minority background were elected to Parliament. 25 of the previous 27 ethnic minority MPs retained their seats and were joined by 16 new ethnic minority MPs. 23 were from the Labour Party, 17 of them were Conservatives and one from the SNP. [14]
Natasha Asghar is the fifth ethnic minority Welsh Parliament member in the legislature’s 22-year history. First woman of colour elected to Senedd says online trolls put off minorities Skip to ...
Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme.Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 06:00 to 09:00 (starting on Saturday at 07:00), it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. [1]
This is a subcategory of Category:Black British people by occupation and includes those elected or appointed to political office, trade unionists and rights campaigners. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The presenter is set to depart the Today programme after 11 years on air. Husain, 51, has worked at the broadcaster for more than 27 years. Mishal Husain’s best takedowns of politicians on BBC ...
Countess Markievicz, Sinn Féin MP for Dublin St Patrick's, 1918–22. She was also the first non-Protestant woman elected to Parliament, having converted to Catholicism in 1917. [2] She abstained from the House of Commons. Alice Cullen, Labour MP for Glasgow Gorbals, 1948–69. She was the first female Catholic MP to take her seat.
The British government recognises the Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Cornish peoples as national minorities under the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, which the UK signed in 1995 and ratified in 1998. [22] A proposal for Longitudinal Study of Ethnic Minorities (LSEM) was suggested by sociologist ...
Experts cautioned that the lack of progress could be linked to a ‘one and done’ attitude after Government-backed targets were introduced in 2021.