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Increased diversity in Parliament: the case for centralising candidate nominations

Maria Sobolewska By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Ethnicity, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

The general election earlier this month saw another record breaking increase in the ethnic diversity of Members of Parliament. Here, Maria Sobolewska looks at what lead to this increased diversity and lays out a path for further progress. The main difference between the 2015 and 2017 elections was how the candidates were selected The Representative […]

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Refugee crisis: An open letter to David Cameron and Teresa May

Rob FordMaria Sobolewska By and Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Academics Rob Ford and Maria Sobolewska have written an open letter, reproduced below and signed by 365 people, asking Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Teresa May urging them to do more to help the thousands of refugees currently trying to make their way across Europe. Rt Hon David Cameron MP 10 Downing Street London […]

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Benefits and costs of party diversity

Maria Sobolewska By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Why do Conservatives try so hard to increase their ethnic diversity while Labour takes minorities for granted? It all depends on who their target voter is. Labour’s target voters thought less of the party when they knew about its ethnic diversity, Conservative’s target voters were the opposite, explains Maria Sobolewska. For political parties the question […]

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Can we ever estimate how many British Muslims will become Islamic extremists?

Maria Sobolewska By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

That the UK’s counter-terrorism policy relies on flawed polls and survey questions for estimating the number of likely terrorists is truly scary, argues Dr Maria Sobolewska. Last week the media turned once again to trying to quantify how many young British Muslims are wannabe terrorists, travelling to Syria and Iraq and joining the Islamic terrorists […]

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Wrong, simplistic, unimaginative; dismantling Demos’s take on ethnic voting

Maria Sobolewska By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Upwardly mobile ethnic minority voters are more likely to turn Tory, claims new research by thinktank Demos. But Dr Maria Sobolewska questions the methodology of the study and the validity of the conclusions. Demos has published a report on whether the Conservatives could avoid Romney’s famous death by demographics, and attract enough ethnic minority votes […]

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