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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.
Firstly, because almost all minority ethnic groups are more likely to get COVID-19, the government should put in place measures to better protect these communities and support people to isolate. Secondly, the consequences and harms associated with COVID-19 for most minority ethnic groups, once they have caught it, are more severe.
In June 2020, a report in the United Kingdom highlighted that ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of losing their lives due to COVID-19. On 5 June, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced to launch a statutory inquiry into racial inequalities , which have been exposed amidst a surge of COVID-19 cases in the UK.
The UK government's response to the pandemic, in particular the timeliness of public health measures being introduced and lifted, has faced criticism from academic medical sources, media outlets, relatives of COVID-19 patients and various political figures.
18 September – COVID-19 in the UK: Prime Minister Boris Johnson states the UK is "now seeing a second wave" of COVID-19, with the R number now at 1.1 to 1.4 and cases rising around the country among all age groups. [158] [159] 22 September – COVID-19 in the UK: Michael Gove recommends that employees should work from home if able to do so ...
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
The number of new directors from self-declared ethnic minority backgrounds dropped for the first time since records began in 2019, according to analysis by Spencer Stuart headhunters of the UK’s ...
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 ...