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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Aletha Adu

Tories announce major Islamophobia rules shake-up - on day of Sue Gray report

The Conservative Party have confirmed a major shake-up to their Islamophobia complaints process - hours after Sue Gray published her damning Partygate report.

Party chairman Oliver Dowden told members this afternoon officials have focused on updating its complaints procedure and updated a new safeguarding policy in response to a damaging report on Islamophobia within the party.

From 2015-2020 the party's central database recorded 1,418 complaints relating to 727 incidents of alleged discrimination - an average of 237 complaints about 122 incidents a year, an independent inquiry into Islamophobia within the party noted.

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