On his selection last week, the Liberal Democrats’ candidate for the Leicester South by-election told the world: “I would never turn my back on the very people who put their trust in me.” So why did Parmjit Singh Gill quit after just five days? Suspiciously enough, Lib Dem pressers attempted to bury the announcement during PMQs [...]
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A decade of Liberal Democrat failure on black and Asian candidates?
The post earlier this week about the lack of any ethnic minority canidates in the Lib Dems’ top 25 target seats generated a bit of a stir. A reader has been in touch to point out that Parmjit Singh Gill, the Liberal Democrat’s only ethnic minority MP ever, was originally selected to fight the Leicester South [...]
Hideously white: no ethnic minority candidates for Liberal Democrats in top 25 target seats
Last year the Liberal Democrat frontbencher Jenny Willot had the cheek to claim that “Labour are failing on ethnic minority employment”. Perhaps the so-called ‘real opposition’ should start by employing some ethnic minorities on their own green benches? As Iain Dale blogged yesterday, Liberal Democrats do not have a single MP (or MEP for that matter) from [...]
