Mark Spencer says accusations are ‘completely false’ after Nusrat Ghani says she was told her faith made colleagues ‘uncomfortable’
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe chief whip has said he is the person to whom a Conservative MP was referring when she accused a member of the government of telling her that she was sacked from her ministerial post because her Muslim faith was “making colleagues uncomfortable”.
“These accusations are completely false and I consider them to be defamatory. I have never used those words attributed to me.”that when she lost her job as a transport minister, she was told that “Muslimness” had been raised as an problem at a meeting in Downing Street “When I challenged whether this was in any way acceptable and made clear there was little I could do about my identity, I had to listen to a monologue on how hard it was to define when people are being racist and that the party doesn’t have a problem and I needed to do more to defend it.
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