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Tory frontbencher Sayeeda Warsi says she was advised not to stand as an MP by her local party as voters were "not ready for two ethnic candidates".
Ms Warsi stood in the 2005 general election, when she was beaten by Labour's Shahid Malik.
But party officials in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, told her voters needed a "bit of time" before two Muslims ran again, she told The Yorkshire Post.
She was made a shadow minister in David Cameron's July reshuffle.
The Tory leader promoted her to the role of shadow community cohesion minister, making her the first Muslim woman to sit on the front bench of a political party in the UK.
The Conservative leadership last night denied there were any "no-go" areas for ethnic minority candidates after Sayeedi Warsi, one of the rising stars of David Cameron's shadow cabinet, admitted local Tory colleagues had advised her against standing in Dewsbury.
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Details of the advice had emerged in an interview with the Yorkshire Post, in which she said her local party felt she would be a "fantastic MP" but advised her not to stand again. Conservative officials insisted that Mrs Warsi, 36, a Dewsbury-born solicitor who will become a peer later this year, had been talking about her difficulties with a divided local electorate - not with her constituency activists.
Describing how some white constituents in the seat she lost in 2005 by 4,615 votes to Labour's Shahid Malik, a fellow-Muslim, had slammed the door in her face and used racist and abusive language before saying: "I ain't voting for you." Mrs Warsi said she had also experienced problems in orthodox Muslim wards with voters "who just had a real issue with a woman standing".
She said: "Suddenly people who you thought would be there to support you, it stuck in their throat. I always say that in the 2005 election I was too black for half of the community and too white for the other half." It was in that context that her constituency chairman had suggested she might be wiser to accept offers, initially from Michael Howard, to join the Tory hierarchy as a party vice-chairman.
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