A black man in No 10 offered to resign. But it seems no one else in the party, not even its black MPs, is willing to stand up for us
- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones – the Black Farmer – is a former Conservative parliamentary candidate
Last October, I was thrilled to get an appointment with a special adviser in Downing Street. Even though I stood for the Conservatives in the Chippenham constituency in 2010, getting this appointment felt like a great achievement after years of trying to engage with the party again.
I’d been drawn to stand for the party by David Cameron, and his “A-list” of diverse parliamentary candidates, of which I became a member. For me, though, it seemed as if all the changes Cameron had made to make the Conservative party more attractive to people of colour had been pushed aside by later regimes embarrassed by such initiatives.
