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Barnie Choudhury: What it will take for Britain to elect an ethnic minority prime minister

Sajid Javid (left) could become the first British Asian occupant of 10 Downing Street.

By: Keerthi Mohan

  by Barnie Choudhury Former BBC journalist JACK BAUER saved the world from annihilation several times, and on at least two occasions, his commander-in-chief was black. Matt Santos ran against the odds to win the nomination of the Democratic party in 2006 and became the US president. And we have just learnt that Elizabeth McCord has quit as US secretary of state and announced she will run for president in the 2020 elections. Sadly, only in one of these three plotlines does life imitate art. I remember watching the first season of 24 and cheering when the president was African-American,…

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