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Rishi Sunak served as Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024. These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Parliament, and other British devolved bodies, as well as members of the non-elected House of Lords.
This was the first time that someone from an ethnic minority had been succeeded in one of the Great Offices of State by another person from that category. [15] First South Asian Member of the Welsh Assembly. Mohammad 'Oscar' Asghar, Conservative AM for South Wales East 2007–20 [16] First South Asian Member of the Scottish Parliament
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.
Ethnic minorities have been under-represented in comparison with their white counterparts in the United Kingdom's political system, particularly in the British Parliament. [38] In 1981, the Home Affairs Select Committee report stated that an " increase in ethnic minority involvement in politics will create ... special representation for ethnic ...
Permjit Gosal MBE (born 25 April 1972) is a Scottish Conservative politician who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for West Scotland since May 2021. [1] She is one of the first women of colour elected to the Scottish parliament, alongside Kaukab Stewart, and is also the first woman of Indian descent and Sikh to serve as an elected member of the Scottish Parliament.
Irish Free State (within Commonwealth to 1948 – subsequently seceded as the Republic of Ireland): W. T. Cosgrave , President of the Executive Council (1922–32), had been MP for Kilkenny City in 1917–18 and for North Kilkenny 1918–22 but he did not sit at Westminster because of the Sinn Féin policy of abstentionism .
Lists of political office-holders in the United Kingdom (10 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Lists of politicians from the United Kingdom" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Black and Minority Ethnic older people The Windrush scandal . The Runnymede Trust has acted as secretariat for the all-party parliamentary group on Race and Community since the start of 2010, and holds the secretariat of the UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN), a UK-wide network of more than 200 organisations involved in race relations and ...