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I moved the article to be consistent with Wikipedia:MOS#Article_titles.2C_headings.2C_and_sections. Ground Zero | t 12:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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Thi article lacks mention of any politicians who are ethnic minorities and are white. Good examples of white ethnic minority politicians, all my examples are ethnically jewish, would be Benjamin Disraeli who was Prime Minister and the Miliband brothers ( Ed Milliband and David Milliband) and John Bercow the current speaker. They are doubtlessly countless other examples of white ethnic minority politicians in Britain some of whom probably aren't jewish. I would simply add them myself and will do but I thought I should let this issue come to the attention of users on here. Eopsid ( talk) 12:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I agree. It is inappropriate (and smacks of politicking) to include Disraeli but no other Jews. It smacks, to be frank, of a Conservative editor wanting to boost the Tories' 'minority count' without including the many Jewish Labour (and some Tory) MPs of the 20th century. I suggest removing Disraeli and changing the name of the article to 'visible ethnic minority British politicians', or someone doing some research and adding all the Jewish MPs. Tom Black ( talk) 12:56, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Really confused about the criteria at work here. Marta Andreasen is listed as a British-Argentinian MEP (although she's a Spanish national). If this makes her an ethnic minority, why not the MPs Rudi Vis (Dutch), Gisele Stuart (German), Daniel Kawczynski (Polish)? Also, Stanley Johnson is listed as being British Turkish, on the basis of one Turkish grandparent - should we then include Robert Halfon, the grandson of an Italian Jew who used to live in Libya? CulturalSnow ( talk) 05:50, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
The issue of Jews not being included in this list is still there, years on from when people first started discussing it here (also lots of mentions in the ‘Need for review’ section below). There are many scholarly and other public articles and studies about Jews being an ethnic minority, so unless the title of this list changes to ‘people of colour’ or similar, they should be included. There’s enough publicly citable articles that balance the UK census categories only including Jewish as a religion. That makes invisible Jews (and Gypsy, Traveller & Roma people who should also be included here). To put it glibly, the gestapo (& white supremacists now) don’t ask Jews if they are religious before persecuting or killing them, it’s their ethnicity that counts. Disraeli (sometime’s included in this list) was not a religious Jew, but ethnically Jewish. White Jews are not Caucasian genetically, and not all Jews are white (there are also black African, Chinese, Middle Eastern etc). I would not spend the time adding Jews (& GTR folks if any have been politicians here) because from the debate it looks like people have spent time adding Jews here and then others have edited them out, leading to the idea that #JewsDontCount and not taking into account the academic articles I alluded to. So…? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.70.132.46 ( talk • contribs) 13:01, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
Would David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre qualify for inclusion in the list?-- 86.144.246.177 ( talk) 06:13, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
-- Minorities observer ( talk) 07:22, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Another problem with Boris Johnson, 'British Turkish' only because he has a Turkish great-grandfather ? This is no longer ethnicity but rather ridiculously genetics and racialism. -- Minorities observer ( talk) 06:14, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
There's no indication of what criteria are being used for inclusion on this list, some of the entries are tenuous at best (e.g. would anyone describe Boris Johnson as a member of an ethnic minority?), and there is a complete lack of sources, which is problematic from a BLP point of view. How can we best resolve these problems? Looking for sources should be relatively easy, but what criteria should be used for inclusion? Cordless Larry ( talk) 20:22, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
To be honest I can't even work out why this article exists. I have no idea what makes someone an ethnic minority in the UK. I imagine that any Scot, Welsh or Irish sitting in Westminster would qualify, as would any English MSP. At the very least the article needs an explanation for international readers. -- haminoon ( talk) 10:44, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
A comparable article was List of LGBT elected British politicians. It was deleted late last year - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LGBT elected British politicians. In that discussion, Brooklands263 claimed to have created it but this note makes it seem that Comte de Mountstuart created it around the same time as this one. Both accounts were socks of Marquis de la Eirron, who has continued to sock for years after being blocked and banned. Other comparable articles include
I agree that the implicit criteria for this article encompass far too many possibilities; from the examples already included, the article's seriously incomplete! The case for deletion seems stronger than that presented at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LGBT elected British politicians. NebY ( talk) 11:25, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Are "British Kenyan" and "British Sri Lankans" actually considered ethnicities in the UK? In most of the world Kenyan and Sri Lankan are just nationalities. -- haminoon ( talk) 11:42, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Well, I was away the whole afternoon for a major cultural event in Brussels and I was pleased to read such an interesting debate when I got back. I think part of the problem is that SleepCovo considers that 1) only 'someone who isn't white' (except for Gipsy or Traveller ) belongs to an 'ethnic minority', this is only a very narrow and controversial definition based on the colonial practices in the British Empire 2) 'someone who isn't white' is anyone who has some 'non white' ancestor, even if one doesn't self-defines as 'non white' and/or is not 'visibly non white', which seems to me dangerously like racist labelling (as in the Nuremberg Laws). Moreover, he stated in the debate that 'Turkey is not a European Country and is a Middle Eastern one', which is purely POV (even if I could agree with him, but keeping aware it would only be my personal opinion on a debated matter) as Turkey is a full-fledged (not an observer) member of the Council of Europe, candidate member to the European Union, and considered by a number of people, both inside and outside Turkey, as a 'European' country. As a matter of fact, most Turks I encountered are physically not less 'white' than most Greeks, Italians or Romanians. I agree with AndyTheGrump: 'we should only be including living persons on the basis of sourced self-identification'. I would be, in my opinion, less problematic to keep this page only as a skeleton with links towards such sections of pages as List of British Indians#Politics. But the best solution would be, as suggested by NebY and Cordless Larry to delete the article AND the similar lists, e.g. List of British Indians#Politics, as the main problem, not yet discussed here, is that such lists are mostly 'original research' (as on my own wiki). -- Minorities observer ( talk) 19:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
This list published by Parliament of dozens of ethnic minority politicians (including ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords in October 2013) can be used to provide support for much of this wikipedia list. -- Epeefleche ( talk) 08:56, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Epeefleche. Since the AfD closed as no consensus, I'm now going to try to do some work on ensuring the list is fully sourced. Can I just check whether there was a specific reason you used the 2013 version of this source rather than the 2015 version? I wonder if anyone on the list is mentioned in the former but not the latter. I could check myself, but it might take a while given the numbers involved! Cordless Larry ( talk) 08:34, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Since Bambos Chambolous has been added to the list since he is of Cypriot descent, surely Chris Kelly should be aswell since he is also of cypriot descent. If not then I would suggest removing Bambos from the list since it would be strange to have one and not the other on the list since they are both from the same ethnic background. 14.136.144.32 ( talk) 16:19, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
The problem is, FinalDestiny1991, that unless we have sources describing these people as members of ethnic minorities, then we are engaging in original research. Following the logic you are applying, I could say that someone with an Irish grandparent is a member of an ethnic minority and add tens (hundreds?) of additional names to the list. Then someone will say that Boris Johnson is part Turkish and add him, and so on. Please see the discussions above, and at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom, about this. Please also see WP:BRD and establish consensus here on the talk page rather than re-adding material that has been reverted. Cordless Larry ( talk) 11:38, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Pinging previous discussion participants Minorities observer, Haminoon, AndyTheGrump, NebY and Epeefleche. Cordless Larry ( talk) 21:46, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Article says "the House of Commons Library estimates that there are 45 ethnic minority members of the House of Lords as of July 2017", but the table has 52 "Serving" members. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scartboy ( talk • contribs) 10:59, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
I removed Paul Scully from the list as he isn't listed in Parliament's reports on ethnic minority MPs. This was reverted by JimmyJoe87, who argues that the sources establish he is of Indian descent. This takes us back to the issue of how we define an ethnic minority politician. Previous discussions (e.g. #Chris Kelly and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom) established that we shouldn't be deciding who and who isn't from an ethnic minority, but should instead rely on whether sources describe them as a member of an ethnic minority. I haven't seen such a source for Scully. Cordless Larry ( talk) 11:55, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
The Office of National Statistics, which I would have thought is about as definitive a source as you could get, uses "White British" as one of the ethnic groups it uses on censuses. "Other White" is explicitly used there, and the ONS remarks that the largest subset in that group is Polish. See here. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:50, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
This article is a list of ethnic minority politicians, so if we don't have sources describing them as ethnic minority politicians, then no, they shouldn't be included. Cordless Larry ( talk) 17:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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Martha Osamor, the two BME Bishops (both with references), the Police and Crime Commissioner and the images for the Northern Ireland, Scottish, Welsh and London Assembly politicians. I have also highlighted the politicians that are currently serving to differentiate them from those who are no longer serving. @ Cordless Larry surely even you don't have a problem with sourced and referenced additions. Also, I removed the section because as you can see it clearly says "Unofficial" and is extremely out of date as the Conservatives, according the House of Lords, have more than 5 BME peers. Crimm432 ( talk) 12:27, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester [1] | 1994 | 2009 | Retired | British Pakistani | |
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John Sentamu, Archbishop of York [2] | 2002 | Serving | Black British | ||
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Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor [3] | 2018 | Serving | Black British |
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Jennette Arnold [4] | North East | 2000 | Serving | Black British | ||
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Murad Qureshi [5] | London-wide | 2004 | 2016 | Defeated | British Bangladeshi | |
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James Cleverly [5] | Bexley and Bromley | 2008 | 2016 | Retired | Black British/ White British ( Mixed Race) | |
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Navin Shah [4] | Brent and Harrow | 2008 | Serving | British Indian | ||
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Onkar Sahota [4] | Ealing and Hillingdon | 2012 | Serving | British Indian | ||
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Kemi Badenoch [5] | London-wide | 2015 | 2017 | Resigned | Black British | |
Conservative | File:Shaun Bailey.jpg | Shaun Bailey [4] | London-wide | 2016 | Serving | Black British | ||
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Unmesh Desai [4] | City and East | 2016 | Serving | British Indian | ||
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Florence Eshalomi [4] | Lambeth and Southwark | 2016 | Serving | Black British | ||
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David Kurten [6] | London-wide | 2016 | Serving | Black British |
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Bashir Ahmad [7] | Glasgow | 2007 | 2009 | Died | British Pakistani | |
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Humza Yousaf [8] | Glasgow | 2011 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
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Hanzala Malik [9] | Glasgow | 2011 | 2016 | Defeated | British Pakistani/ White British ( Mixed Race) | |
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Anas Sarwar [9] | Glasgow | 2016 | Serving | British Pakistani |
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Mohammad Asghar [4] [10] | South Wales East | 2007 | 2009 ( Crossed the floor in 2009) | Left Plaid Cymru, joined Conservative Party | British Pakistani | |
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Vaughan Gething [4] [10] | Cardiff South and Penarth | 2011 | Serving | Black British/ White British ( Mixed Race) | ||
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Altaf Hussain [11] | South Wales West | 2015 | 2016 | Defeated | British Indian |
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Anna Lo [12] | Belfast South | 2007 | 2016 | Retired | British Chinese |
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Hardyal Dhindsa [13] | Derbyshire | 2016 | Serving | British Indian |
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I was wondering would it be much of a stretch if Boris Johnson was added. The reason I suggested this is because he is one-eighth Turkish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:C80B:2D00:DC09:2DC5:906B:A8D4 ( talk) 00:41, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
In the latest House of Commons publication about ethnic diversity in UK politics they have included Paul Scully, who is a Conservative MP: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01156/SN01156.pdf. The publication was first published in September 2022 and updated in November 2022 to reflect his inclusion. ClemsfordB ( talk) 19:07, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
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I moved the article to be consistent with Wikipedia:MOS#Article_titles.2C_headings.2C_and_sections. Ground Zero | t 12:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Since this whole article is identified as being a "List of...", can we simplify and shorten the sub-headings by removing "List of.... from the beginning of each? Ground Zero | t 14:49, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Thi article lacks mention of any politicians who are ethnic minorities and are white. Good examples of white ethnic minority politicians, all my examples are ethnically jewish, would be Benjamin Disraeli who was Prime Minister and the Miliband brothers ( Ed Milliband and David Milliband) and John Bercow the current speaker. They are doubtlessly countless other examples of white ethnic minority politicians in Britain some of whom probably aren't jewish. I would simply add them myself and will do but I thought I should let this issue come to the attention of users on here. Eopsid ( talk) 12:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I agree. It is inappropriate (and smacks of politicking) to include Disraeli but no other Jews. It smacks, to be frank, of a Conservative editor wanting to boost the Tories' 'minority count' without including the many Jewish Labour (and some Tory) MPs of the 20th century. I suggest removing Disraeli and changing the name of the article to 'visible ethnic minority British politicians', or someone doing some research and adding all the Jewish MPs. Tom Black ( talk) 12:56, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Really confused about the criteria at work here. Marta Andreasen is listed as a British-Argentinian MEP (although she's a Spanish national). If this makes her an ethnic minority, why not the MPs Rudi Vis (Dutch), Gisele Stuart (German), Daniel Kawczynski (Polish)? Also, Stanley Johnson is listed as being British Turkish, on the basis of one Turkish grandparent - should we then include Robert Halfon, the grandson of an Italian Jew who used to live in Libya? CulturalSnow ( talk) 05:50, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
The issue of Jews not being included in this list is still there, years on from when people first started discussing it here (also lots of mentions in the ‘Need for review’ section below). There are many scholarly and other public articles and studies about Jews being an ethnic minority, so unless the title of this list changes to ‘people of colour’ or similar, they should be included. There’s enough publicly citable articles that balance the UK census categories only including Jewish as a religion. That makes invisible Jews (and Gypsy, Traveller & Roma people who should also be included here). To put it glibly, the gestapo (& white supremacists now) don’t ask Jews if they are religious before persecuting or killing them, it’s their ethnicity that counts. Disraeli (sometime’s included in this list) was not a religious Jew, but ethnically Jewish. White Jews are not Caucasian genetically, and not all Jews are white (there are also black African, Chinese, Middle Eastern etc). I would not spend the time adding Jews (& GTR folks if any have been politicians here) because from the debate it looks like people have spent time adding Jews here and then others have edited them out, leading to the idea that #JewsDontCount and not taking into account the academic articles I alluded to. So…? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.70.132.46 ( talk • contribs) 13:01, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
Would David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre qualify for inclusion in the list?-- 86.144.246.177 ( talk) 06:13, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
-- Minorities observer ( talk) 07:22, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Another problem with Boris Johnson, 'British Turkish' only because he has a Turkish great-grandfather ? This is no longer ethnicity but rather ridiculously genetics and racialism. -- Minorities observer ( talk) 06:14, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
There's no indication of what criteria are being used for inclusion on this list, some of the entries are tenuous at best (e.g. would anyone describe Boris Johnson as a member of an ethnic minority?), and there is a complete lack of sources, which is problematic from a BLP point of view. How can we best resolve these problems? Looking for sources should be relatively easy, but what criteria should be used for inclusion? Cordless Larry ( talk) 20:22, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
To be honest I can't even work out why this article exists. I have no idea what makes someone an ethnic minority in the UK. I imagine that any Scot, Welsh or Irish sitting in Westminster would qualify, as would any English MSP. At the very least the article needs an explanation for international readers. -- haminoon ( talk) 10:44, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
A comparable article was List of LGBT elected British politicians. It was deleted late last year - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LGBT elected British politicians. In that discussion, Brooklands263 claimed to have created it but this note makes it seem that Comte de Mountstuart created it around the same time as this one. Both accounts were socks of Marquis de la Eirron, who has continued to sock for years after being blocked and banned. Other comparable articles include
I agree that the implicit criteria for this article encompass far too many possibilities; from the examples already included, the article's seriously incomplete! The case for deletion seems stronger than that presented at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LGBT elected British politicians. NebY ( talk) 11:25, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Are "British Kenyan" and "British Sri Lankans" actually considered ethnicities in the UK? In most of the world Kenyan and Sri Lankan are just nationalities. -- haminoon ( talk) 11:42, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Well, I was away the whole afternoon for a major cultural event in Brussels and I was pleased to read such an interesting debate when I got back. I think part of the problem is that SleepCovo considers that 1) only 'someone who isn't white' (except for Gipsy or Traveller ) belongs to an 'ethnic minority', this is only a very narrow and controversial definition based on the colonial practices in the British Empire 2) 'someone who isn't white' is anyone who has some 'non white' ancestor, even if one doesn't self-defines as 'non white' and/or is not 'visibly non white', which seems to me dangerously like racist labelling (as in the Nuremberg Laws). Moreover, he stated in the debate that 'Turkey is not a European Country and is a Middle Eastern one', which is purely POV (even if I could agree with him, but keeping aware it would only be my personal opinion on a debated matter) as Turkey is a full-fledged (not an observer) member of the Council of Europe, candidate member to the European Union, and considered by a number of people, both inside and outside Turkey, as a 'European' country. As a matter of fact, most Turks I encountered are physically not less 'white' than most Greeks, Italians or Romanians. I agree with AndyTheGrump: 'we should only be including living persons on the basis of sourced self-identification'. I would be, in my opinion, less problematic to keep this page only as a skeleton with links towards such sections of pages as List of British Indians#Politics. But the best solution would be, as suggested by NebY and Cordless Larry to delete the article AND the similar lists, e.g. List of British Indians#Politics, as the main problem, not yet discussed here, is that such lists are mostly 'original research' (as on my own wiki). -- Minorities observer ( talk) 19:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
This list published by Parliament of dozens of ethnic minority politicians (including ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords in October 2013) can be used to provide support for much of this wikipedia list. -- Epeefleche ( talk) 08:56, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Epeefleche. Since the AfD closed as no consensus, I'm now going to try to do some work on ensuring the list is fully sourced. Can I just check whether there was a specific reason you used the 2013 version of this source rather than the 2015 version? I wonder if anyone on the list is mentioned in the former but not the latter. I could check myself, but it might take a while given the numbers involved! Cordless Larry ( talk) 08:34, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Since Bambos Chambolous has been added to the list since he is of Cypriot descent, surely Chris Kelly should be aswell since he is also of cypriot descent. If not then I would suggest removing Bambos from the list since it would be strange to have one and not the other on the list since they are both from the same ethnic background. 14.136.144.32 ( talk) 16:19, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
The problem is, FinalDestiny1991, that unless we have sources describing these people as members of ethnic minorities, then we are engaging in original research. Following the logic you are applying, I could say that someone with an Irish grandparent is a member of an ethnic minority and add tens (hundreds?) of additional names to the list. Then someone will say that Boris Johnson is part Turkish and add him, and so on. Please see the discussions above, and at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom, about this. Please also see WP:BRD and establish consensus here on the talk page rather than re-adding material that has been reverted. Cordless Larry ( talk) 11:38, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Pinging previous discussion participants Minorities observer, Haminoon, AndyTheGrump, NebY and Epeefleche. Cordless Larry ( talk) 21:46, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Article says "the House of Commons Library estimates that there are 45 ethnic minority members of the House of Lords as of July 2017", but the table has 52 "Serving" members. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scartboy ( talk • contribs) 10:59, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
I removed Paul Scully from the list as he isn't listed in Parliament's reports on ethnic minority MPs. This was reverted by JimmyJoe87, who argues that the sources establish he is of Indian descent. This takes us back to the issue of how we define an ethnic minority politician. Previous discussions (e.g. #Chris Kelly and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom) established that we shouldn't be deciding who and who isn't from an ethnic minority, but should instead rely on whether sources describe them as a member of an ethnic minority. I haven't seen such a source for Scully. Cordless Larry ( talk) 11:55, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
The Office of National Statistics, which I would have thought is about as definitive a source as you could get, uses "White British" as one of the ethnic groups it uses on censuses. "Other White" is explicitly used there, and the ONS remarks that the largest subset in that group is Polish. See here. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:50, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
This article is a list of ethnic minority politicians, so if we don't have sources describing them as ethnic minority politicians, then no, they shouldn't be included. Cordless Larry ( talk) 17:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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I have added the sourced and referenced additions of:
Martha Osamor, the two BME Bishops (both with references), the Police and Crime Commissioner and the images for the Northern Ireland, Scottish, Welsh and London Assembly politicians. I have also highlighted the politicians that are currently serving to differentiate them from those who are no longer serving. @ Cordless Larry surely even you don't have a problem with sourced and referenced additions. Also, I removed the section because as you can see it clearly says "Unofficial" and is extremely out of date as the Conservatives, according the House of Lords, have more than 5 BME peers. Crimm432 ( talk) 12:27, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester [1] | 1994 | 2009 | Retired | British Pakistani | |
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John Sentamu, Archbishop of York [2] | 2002 | Serving | Black British | ||
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Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor [3] | 2018 | Serving | Black British |
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Labour |
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Jennette Arnold [4] | North East | 2000 | Serving | Black British | ||
Labour |
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Murad Qureshi [5] | London-wide | 2004 | 2016 | Defeated | British Bangladeshi | |
Conservative |
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James Cleverly [5] | Bexley and Bromley | 2008 | 2016 | Retired | Black British/ White British ( Mixed Race) | |
Labour |
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Navin Shah [4] | Brent and Harrow | 2008 | Serving | British Indian | ||
Labour |
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Onkar Sahota [4] | Ealing and Hillingdon | 2012 | Serving | British Indian | ||
Conservative |
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Kemi Badenoch [5] | London-wide | 2015 | 2017 | Resigned | Black British | |
Conservative | File:Shaun Bailey.jpg | Shaun Bailey [4] | London-wide | 2016 | Serving | Black British | ||
Labour |
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Unmesh Desai [4] | City and East | 2016 | Serving | British Indian | ||
Labour |
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Florence Eshalomi [4] | Lambeth and Southwark | 2016 | Serving | Black British | ||
UKIP |
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David Kurten [6] | London-wide | 2016 | Serving | Black British |
Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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SNP |
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Bashir Ahmad [7] | Glasgow | 2007 | 2009 | Died | British Pakistani | |
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Humza Yousaf [8] | Glasgow | 2011 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
Labour |
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Hanzala Malik [9] | Glasgow | 2011 | 2016 | Defeated | British Pakistani/ White British ( Mixed Race) | |
Labour |
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Anas Sarwar [9] | Glasgow | 2016 | Serving | British Pakistani |
Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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Plaid Cymru |
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Mohammad Asghar [4] [10] | South Wales East | 2007 | 2009 ( Crossed the floor in 2009) | Left Plaid Cymru, joined Conservative Party | British Pakistani | |
Conservative | South Wales East | 2009 | Serving | |||||
Labour |
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Vaughan Gething [4] [10] | Cardiff South and Penarth | 2011 | Serving | Black British/ White British ( Mixed Race) | ||
Conservative |
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Altaf Hussain [11] | South Wales West | 2015 | 2016 | Defeated | British Indian |
Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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Alliance |
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Anna Lo [12] | Belfast South | 2007 | 2016 | Retired | British Chinese |
I have also created this sections since it is now relevant for this page
Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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Hardyal Dhindsa [13] | Derbyshire | 2016 | Serving | British Indian |
Crimm432 ( talk) 12:42, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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Neil McEvoy who is partially of Yemeni heritage hasn’t been included as serving in the Welsh Parliament — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.112.178 ( talk) 00:55, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
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I was wondering would it be much of a stretch if Boris Johnson was added. The reason I suggested this is because he is one-eighth Turkish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:C80B:2D00:DC09:2DC5:906B:A8D4 ( talk) 00:41, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
In the latest House of Commons publication about ethnic diversity in UK politics they have included Paul Scully, who is a Conservative MP: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01156/SN01156.pdf. The publication was first published in September 2022 and updated in November 2022 to reflect his inclusion. ClemsfordB ( talk) 19:07, 22 January 2023 (UTC)