However, there was absolutely no mention of an entire street of Labour - voting
ethnic minority voters not being able to speak English either in her Guardian report or elsewere.
Not exact matches
While
not theoretically an easy needle to thread, Neil O'Brien's Policy Exchange, with its simultaneous focus on improving life in the North and appealing to
ethnic minority voters, did just that.
Appealing to the north of England, working class
voters and
ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.
But Barwell calculates that such a stance would
not endear him to the many
ethnic minority voters in his constituency.
The presence of a northern woman in the cabinet will
not be the silver bullet to the issue of Tory unpopularity with urban
voters and women, just as Sajid Javid's appointment has
not made the Tories more appealing to
ethnic minorities.
If Corbyn's appeal to young
voters is mostly restricted to
ethnic minorities and university students / graduates, that won't take him very far in Walsall North - especially with 8,000 Ukip
voters from 2015 likely to lean towards the Tories.
I have argued that the Party had made strategic errors through tokenism and ignorance; that it doesn't matter if we think we're
not racist but
ethnic minority voters do, and that it's time to end the Conservative war on multiculturalism (which, by the way, is supported by 71 per cent of Tory
voters).
Analysis of
ethnic minority voters on the YouGov panel suggests that the degree of Conservative support among
ethnic minority voters, and the shift away from Labour and towards the Conservatives, may
not be as large as Survation online data suggests.
The scale of this challenge is
not yet at U.S levels, but given that Britain under 18 is considerably more diverse than the current electorate, it will become increasingly unlikely at each election there will be a future Conservative majority government without making considerable progress among
ethnic minority voters.
As Lord Ashcroft puts it: «the Conservative Party's unpopularity among black and Asian
voters is
not simply a matter of class and geography... Among
ethnic minority voters the Conservatives» brand problem exists in a more intense form.»
After the political Cabinet which reviewed the party's electoral performance, one Minister told me: «A number of the problems that were there haven't gone away — our attractiveness to
ethnic minority voters, for instance.»
It is unique in being a seat that has a majority of
ethnic minority voters, but a Conservative Member of Parliament - a sign that the party does
not struggle to quite the same extent with Hindu
voters as it does with Muslim or black
voters.