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Little trivia nugget from "Brexitland" as I work on the final chapter - one of David Cameron's less discussed legacies is the "A-list" policy which encouraged the selection of women and ethnic minority candidates in safe Con seats. Our current Home Sec and Chancellor were both
...selected for safe Con seats after the intro of this policy. Thus it may be said that Cameron's efforts to diversify his party have, in the longer run, played an important role in the rise of Britain's first ever ethnic minority Chancellor, and both of its first EM Home Secs
Experiments by my co-author @smthgsmthg suggest this was a good electoral strategy - white voters given information about growing diversity of Con MPs had more positive views of the party relative to people not given such info.
