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With the 2010 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs increased by nearly three-quarters, to a total of 26. [12] The first three Muslim female MPs were elected. [12] All ethnic minority MPs were either Labour (15) or Conservative (11). [12]
This article about records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom and of England includes a variety of lists of MPs by age, period and other circumstances of service, familiar sets, ethnic or religious minorities, physical attributes, and circumstances of their deaths.
List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom This page was last edited on 26 December 2024, at 08:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
First female ethnic minority member of the Senedd. Natasha Asghar, 2021–present; First female ethnic minority directly elected mayor in England. Brenda Dacres, Mayor of Lewisham, 2024-present [4] First female Chancellor. Rachel Reeves, 2024-present
Party Portrait Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason for tenure ending Ethnicity Labour: Mohammad Sarwar [citation needed]: Glasgow Central: 1997: 2010: Retired
He retired from business in 2003 to devote himself to politics. In 2003, he defeated the Labour candidate to become the Councillor for the Pollokshields East ward. Upon his selection as second on the SNP's Glasgow list, Ahmad said: "The lack of any Asian or ethnic minority voice in the Scottish Parliament has been felt deeply in my community.
This is a list of sitting members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who died by assassination or other culpable homicide. Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, a merchant who blamed the government for his debt. From 1882 to 1990, six MPs ...
The incident was the first killing of a sitting British MP since the death of Conservative MP Ian Gow, who was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1990, and the first murder of a politician in the United Kingdom during an attack since county councillor Andrew Pennington was killed in 2000.