The Conservative Party suspends its former vice-president Lee Anderson for Islamophobia. Anderson will remain a parliamentarian but will do so as an independent after the expulsion.
Sadiq Khan reacted witheringly to his statements, made on Friday, accusing him of "throwing oil on the fire of anti-Islamic hatred" The British Islamic Council (MCB) also condemned Anderson's words, reiterating that the Conservative Party "has an Islamophobia problem." Anderson's remarks came at the pro-Palestine rally in Westminster on Wednesday, as MPs debated an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza.