Ethnic minorities make their mark at Westminster - BBC News
David Cameron said in a speech last
November that he wanted to see an ethnic minority prime minister to
prove "Britons of all backgrounds can achieve".
Only time will tell whether he gets his wish. No-one should get too carried away, though.
Britain has had only a handful of non-white cabinet ministers. Indeed, Mr Cameron's new cabinet, following his election victory in May, has just two minority-ethnic cabinet ministers.
It is all a far cry from 1987, when four new black and minority-ethnic MPs - all Labour - entered the House, a symbolic and powerful moment for many observers.
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