Sentences with phrase «which ethnic minority voters»
The British political establishment — including journalists — also underestimate the extent to which ethnic minority voters, especially Muslims, can be motivated by foreign policy.
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Bright Blue, which counts Theresa May, Francis Maude, Andrew Mitchell and David Willetts among its members, said the war on drugs had clearly failed and that the Tories could tempt young and ethnic minority voters to the party with a radical proposal on drugs.
The report strengthens the hand of Tory modernising groups like Bright Blue, which want the party to appeal to young and ethnic minority voters.
She ended the session with a much less irritating attack on changes to the electoral register which will almost certainly see thousands of disadvantaged and ethnic minority voters fall off the list.
Many ethnic minority voters are worried about immigration, like their white counterparts, but they are much more sensitive to some of the more draconian elements of the system, which have been allowed to run amok as the Tories try to invite Ukip voters back to the party.
He said there were four overlapping groups to which the Tories have failed to appeal: working class voters, northern urban voters, ethnic minority voters and people outside the Tory heartlands.
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).
In other developments today, a leaked letter from the equalities and human rights watchdog warns new rules which require voters to prove their identities at the ballot box could disenfranchise ethnic minority communities.
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.»