She was Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister – and has faced questions for years about why she was in the Conservative party. Yesterday, she resigned the whip. She explains whyUntil yesterday, Sayeeda Warsi was one of the...
Read MorePeer cites ‘hypocrisy in treatment of different communities’ as party investigates her tweet on acquittal of ‘coconut’ protesterThe former cabinet minister Sayeeda Warsi has resigned the Conservative whip, saying the party had...
Read MorePeer cites ‘hypocrisy in treatment of different communities’ as party investigates her tweet on acquittal of ‘coconut’ protesterThe former cabinet minister Sayeeda Warsi has resigned the Conservative whip, saying the party had...
Read More‘If you can’t call Islamophobia Islamophobia, then how are we going to fix it?’ says Sayeeda WarsiRishi Sunak has been urged to break his silence over a mounting Islamophobia row as senior Conservatives criticised the...
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Read MoreMark Sedwill says there was sometimes ‘gallows humour’ in ‘a very stressful period’ in 2020Keith is only now asking about Covid. All the questions so far have been about process.Sedwill says, when...
Read MoreMark Sedwill says he can see why the remark, made in private, would be seen as ‘heartless and thoughtless’Keith is only now asking about Covid. All the questions so far have been about process.Sedwill says, when...
Read MoreSources say Home Office apologised to Essex force over seizure of racist dolls but government denies claimThe row over Suella Braverman’s “rebuke” to Essex police for seizing racist golly dolls from a pub...
Read MoreFormer senior minister accuses home secretary of undermining party for sake of her own leadership ambitionsMore senior Conservatives have hit out at Suella Braverman’s “racist rhetoric”, accusing her of...
Read MoreTory peer says she has told father not to walk home alone from mosque as she is worried about backlash against British MuslimsThe former Conservative chair Sayeeda Warsi has said she has warned her father not to walk home alone...
Read MoreExclusive: Lady Warsi says PM should consider his legacy in handling of ‘extreme views’ on ethnicity and grooming casesA senior Conservative peer has urged Rishi Sunak to distance the party from Suella...
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