*Evidently fake news once again (see immediately preceding blogpost), as not only had Keir Starmer 'appointed...the most female and ethnically led shadow cabinet in [British] history' (according to 'Diversity Today' on April 6th, 2020), but Jeremy Corbyn's own ones had 'been the most diverse in [British] parliamentary history' (according to 'The News'), with this important caveat: 'the [then] current composition [of Corbyn's shadow cabinet] [was]n't the most diverse ever (taking either gender or ethnicity in isolation'.
Nevertheless, surely one expects as much from a party profusely professing equity in all things, whereas supposedly the UK Conservative Party has hardly - at least historically - ever been associated with such...
That's the point I've been seeking to make, but yes, it's ever a dangerous temptation to seek to make the facts conform to our own pre-conceived opinions!
Anyhow, how many and what percentage of Labour leadership aspirants, let alone ultimately successful ones, have been 'ethnically diverse' as such?
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