Allegations by the former Conservative minister Nusrat Ghani that she was sacked for being Muslim have reignited accusations that the party is institutionally Islamophobic.
Ghani, who was the first Muslim woman to speak from the Commons dispatch box, sent shockwaves across the country this weekend when she alleged in a Sunday Times interview that her “Muslimness” was raised when she was removed from a ministerial job in 2020, and said she was told it was “making colleagues uncomfortable”.
