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The Spectator's Notes

The triumph of ethnic-minority Tories

16 July 2022

9:00 AM

16 July 2022

9:00 AM

If you had said, even ten years ago, that there was no chance of a white male cabinet minister becoming the next Conservative leader, you would have been greeted with incredulity. Yet it is so today. And it is good, because the change has happened on merit. When the Conservatives began advancing ethnic-minority candidates under David Cameron, I feared it would be tokenistic.

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