I just googled the current cabinet, and the shadow cabinet, and it struck me how very white they both are. Sigh.
That's true, but compared to the population of the UK it's not surprising. The population of the UK is ethnically a little over 87% 'White/White British' according to Wikipedia -
link, and the shadow cabinet is made up of 25 members, with the cabinet having
2723*. If you assume that cabinets are representative of the ethnicity of the population, that would mean that there should be just over 3 members of the shadow cabinet, and almost exactly 3 members of the cabinet who are of another ethnicity.
I'm not sure I enjoyed doing this, and I wouldn't recommend grouping politicians by their ethnicity/gender/age etc., but I think the Labour Shadow Cabinet has 3 members who are of another ethnicity looking at photos, whereas the Conservative Government has one member. Interestingly they are all women.
So yes they are predominately white, but compared to the population, the Shadow Cabinet is around about where you would expect it to be, whereas other ethnicities are under-represented by 2 posts (or by 67%) compared to the national population.
*I counted more rows than there were - other stats edited accordingly.