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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu, and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Boers.

Over the weekend, the MP Nazarak Ghani accused the government of sacking her because allegedly her Muslimness was an issue,

and they thought that she didn't defend the government against claims of Islamophobia more. Now, James, predictably this has blown up because it's a

pretty big allegation. What would you make of the whole story? So in the Sunday Times story,

the whip in question was not named. Mark Spencer, the chief whip, then sent out a Twitter thread which he deleted, but apparently

seemingly not because of a kind of grammatical mistake or a typo, which he then reposted

basically saying that he was the whipping question, but he hadn't said what was alleged

and he considered it to be untrue and defamatory.

It then emerged in further details that Nozrat Ghani and Boris Johnson had discussed this matter,

that Boris Johnson had urged her to make a kind of complaint through the Tory party complaints process.

She had not wanted to do so because she felt this was something that happened in government,

not like a party matter.

You know, this isn't like a kind of someone in her association saying something to her.

This is someone who is, you know, allegedly said by the government chief whip.

And this morning we've now had Boris Johnson announcing that the Cabinet office will be conducting an inquiry into it.

So yet another Cabinet office inquiry.

I think one question that

this raises, which is, if you are a politician from a minority background, do you have a

kind of special responsibility to protect your party from charges of prejudice? My sense is

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