BLACK British stars will appear with white faces in a hard-hitting new campaign launched yesterday to encourage minorities to register to vote ahead of the general election.

Homeland actor David Harewood, musician Tinie Tempah, ex-footballer Sol Campbell and Paralympic medallist and television presenter Ade Adepitan were photographed for Operation Black Vote.

The campaign features four posters with photos taken by leading photographer Rankin and an online 60-second advert starring Harewood.

Harewood, 49, who played a CIA chief in the US spy drama Homeland, helped launch the campaign in London, saying voting was the only way to change institutions such as Westminster and make them more representative of a multicultural Britain.

He said: “What it brilliantly illustrates is that if you don’t register to vote, you are quite literally taking all the vibrancy we have in our community off the table.”