(GB News) Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to create a “council on Islamophobia” to draw up an official definition of the term.
The 16-member council is said to provide advice to ministers on tackling Islamophobia, [and] ex-Tory Attorney General Dominic Grieve has been “recommended” to chair it, the Telegraph reports.
The group will sit within Rayner’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), with Grieve set to be appointed thanks to his history of working to combat “anti-Muslim hate.”
He chaired the Citizens’ UK Commission on Islam, a group which aimed to promote dialogue between Muslim and non-Muslim communities, and wrote a foreword to a controversial all-party parliamentary group’s (APPG’s) 2018 report which established a definition of Islamophobia, which the Labour Party went on to adopt.
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