British Prime Minister David Cameron said that he wanted to see a British Asian become the Prime Minster of Britain one day.
Cameron made the remarks at the annual GG2 award ceremony, organized by the Asian Media and Marketing Group to honor people from Britain's Asian community who have excelled in their respective fields, according to The Telegraph.
Cameron told the GG2 Leadership Awards: "Let us think big about what Britons of all backgrounds can achieve. When I hear 'sir', 'your honour' or 'right honourable', I want them to be followed by a British Asian name."
"One day I want to hear that title 'Prime Minister' followed by a British Asian name," he said.
Sajid Javid, Conservative party politician and culture secretary, was named as the most influential Asian in the United Kingdom.
In his speech, Cameron described Javid as a brilliant man and said that he was proud of Javid's achievements. He also said that Javid's achievement of becoming the culture secretary of Britain, in spite of coming to the country just two generations ago, reveals something about Britain and the kind of country they are building presently.
Elaborating further, Cameron said that there were very few people from ethnic minorities to have reached top positions in Britain.
Cameron said that this deficiency can be felt in the boardrooms of the FTSE250, Chamber of the Houses of Parliament, football manager's benches, High Court judge's benches and in British armed forces. He added that Britain can realize its full potential only when all of its citizens are able to achieve what they want.
"Culture is more than a privilege. It's at the core of who we are and how we define ourselves. If you're not engaged with our cultural life, you're not engaged with our national life. And in 2014, too many Britons are culturally disfranchised," Javid said.
Javid was born in Rochdale, and was a former managing director at Deutsche Bank. His father came to Britain from Pakistan in 1961.
Elected as MP from Bromsgrove in 2010, Javid was made the Culture Secretary in April 2014 after having served as the financial secretary to the treasury.
Meanwhile, Baroness Warsi, a former Conservative Party chairman and Foreign Office minister, told BBC Asian Network that the Conservative party had stopped its efforts to attract Muslim voters for the next elections, reported BBC.
She particularly blamed Britain's response to the recent Palestine crisis as a reason for alienation of Muslim voters.
