Ethnicity is significant towards voting

• Conservative lead over Labour among white voters


  11-point lead in 2015, increased to 19 points in 2019
• Labour support from BME voters


  64% of votes from BME voters in 2019, compared to 20% for the Tories
• Minority ethnic voters tend to favour Labour
• Historical reasons for minority ethnic voters favouring Labour

  • Anti-immigration sentiment of Conservative figures such as Enoch Powell and Norman Tebbit
  • Concentration of ethnic minority groups in urban industrial centres such as London, Birmingham and Manchester