Analysing party manifestos shows the extent of ethnicminority marginalisation in the UK’s electoral politics

A recent analysis of party manifestos carried out by Paul Chaney and summarised here shows that the amount of attention paid to ethnic minorities has increased in both national and devolved programmes for government. However, he also observes that despite the progress that has been made, the main parties have failed to fully adapt their policy-making to meet the needs of an increasingly ethnically-diverse population