Labour finally fills race post

EQUALITIES: Yasmin Qureshi MP (Pic: Richard Meftah Photographic 2016(

LABOUR APPOINTED a new race equality shadow minister following an investigation by The Voice which questioned why the party had left the post vacant for almost two months.

The announcement was made the day after we published.

Yasmin Qureshi, MP for Bolton South East, joins the equalities team after Taiwo Owatemi stood down on 8th September.

Labour had failed to answer questions from this paper about why the appointment was taking so long, or whether the role had been scrapped.

In the time it took Labour to fill the post, the Conservatives had appointed two new governments.

Announcing the appointment on Twitter, Anneliese Dodds said: “Huge welcome to @YasminQureshiMP, who is joining Labour’s front bench as Shadow Women and Equalities Minister.

“Together we’ll take the fight to the Conservatives and their woeful record on equalities. Labour will deliver a fairer future for everyone in Britain.”

A source said: “Better late than never.”

Qureshi, a human rights lawyer before entering parliament, and had previously served as a frontbencher for both Sir Keir Starmer and former leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Owatemi had been in the role for just under a year. In an interview with The Voice in November, she promised to “end the hierarchy of equalities”, but just eight months later the Forde Report found that Labour suffered from a hierarchy of equalities.

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  1. | Chaka Artwell

    The Labour Party cares about skin-colour prejudice; segregation and racism endured by His Majesty’s African-heritage Subjects, to the same degree a fox carefully watches over a sitting hen.

    The Forde reports makes clear the Labour Party is a bastion of skin-colour prejudice; segregation and racism against African-heritage people generally, and Labour MPs specifically.

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