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Last Modified: 04 Apr 2008
By: Samantha Haque

Should some shortlists of parliamentary candidates be restricted to people from ethnic minorities?

It's a familiar debate in the Labour Party but now it's on its way back, assisted by the Obama effect in America. Campaigners say the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death is an ideal time to address the relative lack of black representation this side of the Atlantic.

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