Tory Minister speaks of ‘race-clash’ fear
A Tory minister from West Yorkshire has told how party chiefs advised her against standing in the next election because “the white community was not ready for two ethnic candidates”.
Shadow community cohesion minister Sayeeda Warsi, stood as the Conservative candidate in Dewsbury, in 2005, but lost to another Muslim, Labour’s Shahid Malik, by 4,615 votes.
She told the Yorkshire Post her local party said she would be a “fantastic MP”, but questioned whether a contest between two Muslims was the right way forward.
Baroness Warsi said: “The chairman said you’re the best candidate we’ve ever had, you would have made a fantastic MP for this town but at the moment, maybe because of the way that this community is, it still needs a bit of time on both sides. Maybe the white community is not ready for two ethnic candidates.”
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