Pramila Le Hunte: 'I tried to be the first female British Asian Tory MP'

Of the 365 Conservative MPs elected last week 14 were of South Asian heritage and four of them were women. It's a far cry from 1983, when Pramila Le Hunte became the first British South Asian woman to stand for parliament as a Tory, writes the BBC's Kavita Puri.
In the late spring of 1983,

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