Have the Tories got 'Islamophobic tendencies'?

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The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Conservatives are divided over Lee Anderson's suspension, with some believing that if he apologises for comments made about Sadiq Khan, he should be allowed to return. This has sparked new concerns about the Tory party having a problem with islamophobia, worsened by Liz Truss appearing at an event with Steve Bannon who has also been accused of making Islamophobic comments. How can Rishi Sunak squash these accusations? Should Truss also lose the whip? Cindy Yu speaks to James Heale and Katy Balls.

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0:15.2	Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots,
0:20.0	the Spectatist Daily Politics Podcast.
0:22.4	I'm Cindy U. and I'm joined by James
0:24.0	Heel and Katie Bulls. So over the weekend Lee Anderson lost Tory web as we
0:28.7	reported on this podcast. Katie it's Monday morning now what's me moving on
0:32.2	with the story? I think the
0:34.1	Lee Anderson debacle is still dominating the headlines and it feels I think in a
0:39.2	way that before that happened and you got into the end of last week in the Chaos on the House of Commons,
0:45.0	and there was a quite serious discussion going on about mob politics, about whether protests,
0:52.0	as we have seen, to the point that MPs feel like the under threat for their safety,
0:56.2	how does the House of Commons in the present day deal with that,
1:00.3	intimidation against MPs on these tricky issues.
1:04.0	Since Le Anderson came out and made his comments about Sadiq Khan and I'm using the
1:08.7	inverse of comments, his mates, refused to apologize and withdrew the whip.
1:13.0	It now feels as though the conversation has moved to one instead
1:16.0	about the Tory Party and Islamophobia,
1:18.0	the Tory Party and Islam,
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