Muslim Tory legislator Nusrat Ghani says she was sacked from UK's government because her religion was 'making colleagues uncomfortable'
Ghani's remarks come after one of her Conservative colleagues said he would meet police to discuss accusations that government whips had attempted to"blackmail" lawmakers suspected of trying to force Johnson from office.
There was no immediate response to her comments from Johnson's Downing Street office, but Mark Spencer, the government's chief whip, said he was the person at the centre of Ghani's allegations. "I was told that at the reshuffle meeting in Downing Street that ‘Muslimness’ was raised as an ‘issue’, that my ‘Muslim women minister’ status was making colleagues uncomfortable," the paper quoted Ghani, Britain's first female Muslim minister, as saying.
The Conservative Party has previously faced anti-Islam allegations, and a report in May last year criticised it over how it dealt with complaints of discrimination against Muslims. "Nus is very brave to speak out. I was truly appalled to learn of her experience," Wragg said on Twitter on Saturday. He has told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that he would meet the police early next week to discuss his allegations.
Johnson, who in 2019 won his party's biggest majority in more than 30 years, is fighting to shore up his authority after the "partygate" scandals, which followed criticism of the government's handling of a corruption row and other mis-steps.
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