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| Baroness Warsi's plea to remain Tory party chairwoman | |
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| Conservative Party chairwoman Baroness Warsi has appealed to David Cameron to allow her to keep her post in any forthcoming cabinet reshuffle. | |
| The PM is expected to have his first full reshuffle next week and there has been debate about Lady Warsi's future. | The PM is expected to have his first full reshuffle next week and there has been debate about Lady Warsi's future. |
| But she told the Daily Telegraph: "If I genuinely had a choice, I would like to stay doing what I'm doing." | But she told the Daily Telegraph: "If I genuinely had a choice, I would like to stay doing what I'm doing." |
| Lady Warsi, the first female Muslim cabinet minister, said she could help attract a new generation of voters. | Lady Warsi, the first female Muslim cabinet minister, said she could help attract a new generation of voters. |
| She said the party needed more votes from people in urban areas and more women. | She said the party needed more votes from people in urban areas and more women. |
| 'Working-class mum' | 'Working-class mum' |
| Speaking in Tampa Bay, Florida, where she has been attending the Republican Party convention, she said: "If you look at the demographics, at where we need to be at the next election, we need more people in the North voting for us, more of what they call here blue collar workers and I call the white working class. | Speaking in Tampa Bay, Florida, where she has been attending the Republican Party convention, she said: "If you look at the demographics, at where we need to be at the next election, we need more people in the North voting for us, more of what they call here blue collar workers and I call the white working class. |
| "We need more people from urban areas voting for us, more people who are not white and more women. | "We need more people from urban areas voting for us, more people who are not white and more women. |
| "I play that back and think, I'm a woman, I'm not white, I'm from an urban area, I'm from the North, I'm working class - I kind of fit the bill. All the groups that we're aiming for are groups that I'm familiar with." | "I play that back and think, I'm a woman, I'm not white, I'm from an urban area, I'm from the North, I'm working class - I kind of fit the bill. All the groups that we're aiming for are groups that I'm familiar with." |
| The Conservative peer who describes herself as a "Northern working-class mum" has a reputation for speaking her mind. | The Conservative peer who describes herself as a "Northern working-class mum" has a reputation for speaking her mind. |
| She told the paper the prime minister knew her strengths and weaknesses. | She told the paper the prime minister knew her strengths and weaknesses. |
| "I believe you've got to have the right people in the right job," she added. | "I believe you've got to have the right people in the right job," she added. |