Labour has a world-beating record on equality and diversity. We elected our first ethnic minority MPs more than 20 years ago.
Being beaten by the Liberals by 95 years is hardly \”world-beating\”.
The rest of it is simply that there should be a woman on the ballot paper so that people can vote for me.
Don’t Jews count?
There’s a joke in there somewhere…
Diane Abbott – making David Lammy look utterly brilliant by comparison…
In these matters it is customary to point out that Lord Liverpool and the two Pitts were of mixed race. So that’s 3 PMs.
Disraeli?
I think one of the main reasons the Left hated Thatcher so much is because she had the temerity to be in the wrong party. Under her shadow of 10 years at the top, the Labour women are insignificant.
And the second Asian MP was the Conservative M.M. Bhownagree, MP for Bethnal Green from 1895-1905.