Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has condemned MP Lee Anderson’s remarks that sparked an Islamophobia row as he denied the Conservative Party has Islamophobic tendencies. The former deputy chairman lost the Conservative whip after failing to apologise for claiming “Islamists” had “got control” of Sadiq Khan. On Monday (February 26), Mr Sunak said Mr Anderson's comments “weren’t acceptable, they were wrong” after facing mounting pressure to address the fallout. Critics including the London mayor and Tory peer Baroness Warsi had hit out at the Prime Minister for failing to explicitly condemn the comments. Oliver Dowden earlier declined to say whether Mr...
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