Prime Minister Stephen Harper: British Conservatives

David Cameron Dept: British news reports have quoted officials from Prime Minister David Cameron's governing Conservatives saying the party's bid to achieve a parliamentary majority will only succeed if - like Prime Minister Stephen Harper - Cameron can broaden the Tories' appeal among immigrants from India, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to Montreal Gazette. Both the Independent and Daily Mail newspapers are reporting that Cameron intends to send his political secretary, Stephen Gilbert, to meet with Kenney to learn more about how British Conservatives can increase their support among so-called BME Black and Minority Ethnic voters, as they're categorized in British political parlance and britain's Conservative Party, now heading that country's minority coalition government but envious of Canada's federal Tory majority, is preparing an ambitious outreach effort among the U.K.'s ethnic minorities - long-time backers of the Labour Party - in a strategy that's directly modelled on the Jason Kenney-led campaign credited in recent elections with convincing key Asian-Canadian communities to abandon their traditional allegiance to the Liberals. At the centre of the Conservatives' wooing of Canadian ethnic minorities has been Kenney, Harper's minister for the Department of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. The Calgary MP is renowned for attending countless ethnic festivals across the country, waving the Conservative flag and cementing new bonds between the party and various immigrant communities - especially in politically strategic ridings around suburban Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.