(Politics Home) Sajid Javid has confirmed that a long-promised Conservative inquiry into Islamophobia will now be broadened out to include “all types of prejudice.”
The chancellor — who made headlines in the Conservative leadership campaign by getting all fellow contenders to sign up to a probe on anti-Muslim abuse in the party — said it now “makes sense” to broaden the inquiry out.
But the comments come amid anger over the Tories’ handling of allegations of Islamophobia, with former Conservative co-chair Baroness Warsi accusing a minister of “whitesplaining” racism to her and Labour claiming a “spectacular betrayal” of the original pledge.
During the Tory leadership race, Mr Javid forced his rival candidates to back “an external investigation into the Conservative Party on Islamophobia” after a string of councillors and self-declared Conservative members were suspended over anti-Muslim remarks on social media.
