Islamophobia: Baroness Warsi attacks Conservative prejudice inquiry

(BBC) Baroness Warsi has criticised her party’s inquiry into Islamophobia and other forms of prejudice, arguing it does not address past problems.

The former Conservative chairwoman said it needed to cover previous cases rather than just complaint handling.

And she said the party’s choice of a psychiatry professor, who she claimed did not believe in institutional racism, to head it did not “bode well.”

Prof Swaran Singh was announced as the chairman of the inquiry on Tuesday.

Speaking on BBC Politics Live, Tory MP Suella Braverman defended the inquiry as a “welcome step.”

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