Minorities report: the attitudes of Britain’s ethnic minority population

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode of the UK in a Changing Europe podcast, Anand Menon sits down with UKICE researchers Sophie Stowers and Zain Mohyuddin to discuss their recently published 'Minorities report: the attitudes of Britain’s ethnic minority population'. Research suggests that ethnic minority voters often have political and social views at variance with those held by the population as a whole, and indeed by other ethnic groups. Yet we often lack the data to examine these attitudes and how they differ. The 'Minorities report: the attitudes of Britain’s ethnic minority population' aims to set that right. It attempts to look at the diversity of political opinion, social values and economic preferences not just between Britain’s white and non-white population, but between different ethnic and religious groups. The report looks not just at voting and elections, but more broadly at questions of identity, tolerance, and experiences of race and discrimination. It covers political views and values at both the 2019 and 2024 elections, questions of identity, being ‘British’, discrimination and prejudice, and economic preferences and social values. Access a PDF copy of the report in full here: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/minorities-report-the-attitudes-of-britains-ethnic-minority-population/

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to the UK and a Changing Europe podcast, which is the podcast done by UK and a changing Europe.
0:14.3	We're here today to discuss a recent report we've put out on ethnic minority voters.
0:26.1	I'm absolutely delighted that we've got two of the authors of that report here with me today.
0:32.7	Zane Mohiuddin, who's an intern who did a lot of the number crunching that I won't be asking him about because I don't understand it.
0:37.1	And Sophie Stowers, who I think it's fair to say wrote the bulk of the text.
0:38.2	So welcome both of you.
0:44.6	Hello. Hi. Yeah, don't be shy. You might tell you. It's fine. So, I mean, there's a load to get through.
0:49.6	And I mean, first and foremost, why is this report so special? I mean, what, it's based on a survey,
0:54.4	isn't it? And just, just assume it's a stretch I know that I don't understand these things.
0:56.6	Explain to me why this is a big deal.
1:03.9	So it's a big deal because basically for pollsters, political scientists, people who generally look at a vote and behaviour, it's quite difficult to get an accurate survey of ethnic minority voters in the UK and it's for a
1:12.9	mix of reasons I mean partly because it's a relatively small portion of the population and whenever
1:18.8	you're trying to look at kind of smaller percentages of people in survey where it just generally
1:23.4	is more difficult to get a good quality sample of that group.
1:31.1	And because they tend to be, you know, I think minority voters tend to be kind of located in certain part of the country, which makes kind of dislocating kind of factors
1:37.2	to do with their voting behavior away from geographic factors and other things that might
1:41.4	make a difficult to kind of separate out exactly why voters vote the way they do.
1:46.1	And because of all those kinds of complicating factors, it tends to be quite expensive, quite a time-consuming process.
1:52.1	And so there's not necessarily always the incentives, I think, for pollsters, political scientists, people like that to really do this kind of work.
2:02.8	Unfortunately, you know, we did actually have kind of the time and space to do something like this um which has meant it's kind
2:08.0	of the biggest survey of its kind i think since 2015 um and kind of the most significant in terms
2:14.9	of the breadth of topics that it covers you know we're not just looking at
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