What makes you different as a politician because you are from an ethnic minority?

Seema Malhotra for Labour says that it allows her to feel a better connection.

Rehman Chishti says there is simply not enough ethnic minority people in parliament, full stop, and more need to stand to properly represent the population.

Lib Dem Maajid Nawaz says that being from an ethnic minority gives him a “lived experience” that white politicians just don’t have. He says that he has been stopped and searched, he has had his DNA taken and even been chased down the street by neo nazis. This experience, he says, means that if he has influence in Government it will be “over his dead body” that archaic, unequal policies are reintroduced.

Tariq Mahmood for Ukip gets a laugh when he says is that Ukip have opened him with open arms, but he says that he has had many posivite, engaging conversations with ethnic minority communities and being from an ethnic minority has enabled him to do this.

And with that the debate comes to an end.