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Bill McLoughlin

No10 axes Islamophobia adviser for stance on controversial film

Downing Street has dismissed its Islamophobia adviser over his stance regarding the removal, of what some critics have called, a “blasphemous film”.

Crowds gathered in Bradford, Bolton, Birmingham, Sheffield and Stratford, east London, over the last week following the release of ‘The Lady of Heaven’, which both Cineworld and Showcase have since decided to pull from their theatres.

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