(Middle East Eye) Former Conservative chair Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has endorsed the Labour government’s decision to pull funding from an Islamophobia reporting service accused of severely under-reporting hate crimes.
Tell Mama, which is funded by the communities ministry, was founded in 2012. The Guardian reported on Saturday that no grant will be provided to the organisation from the end of March, leaving it facing closure.
“I support this decision by the government and its decision to re-think how it funds the monitoring of anti-Muslim hate,” Warsi said on social media platform X on Tuesday.
Warsi, who is widely considered a leading figure on Islamophobia in Britain, was one of the early advocates for Tell Mama to be funded by the government as a minister in David Cameron’s cabinet.
