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MP Hazel Blears
Hazel Blears Pleads for more ethnic involvement
Peter Devine25/ 9/2007
THE Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth has heard a plea this week for more ethnic minorities becoming local politicians.
Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for Communities said involvement would help strengthen communities across the country including Rochdale, Oldham and Bradford.
A special commission is currently looking at a range of ways in which individuals from ethnic communities can stand for council.
The Salford MP explained: "I hope we can debate new ways to get a whole range of people to stand for the council.
"More people from our black and minority ethnic communities, more representatives from every community in Britain, so that councils look like the communities they serve. And certainly more women because the current inequality between men and women on councils is a disgrace."
Mrs Blears told the delegates that the Labour Party was founded by men and women who believed in the powerful potential of democratic politics.
She explained: "This happened by working class communities who knew that by coming together, acting together, working together, there was no force so powerful it could not overcome."
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