MP stopped from boarding Air Canada flight as ‘his name was Mohammad’

The Canadian high commissioner in London is being asked to respond to the ‘racist and Islamophobic’ treatment of Mohammad Yasin. Photograph: UK parliament/Maria Unger/PA

An MP was stopped from boarding a flight to Canada with other members of parliament “because his name was Mohammad”, the Commons heard on Monday.

Mohammad Yasin, Labour’s MP for Bedford, was due to fly to Canada with other MPs from the Commons levelling up, housing and communities committee when he was delayed for questioning “for a considerable period” at airports in both countries last week.