United Kingdom: Prime Minister Boris Johnson's party faces Islamophobia problem
Anti-Muslim sentiment is very present within Boris Johnson's party at the local or individual level, but not at the institutional level.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative party faces a persistent problem of Islamophobia at the local or individual level, an independent report on discrimination within the party concluded on Tuesday.
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What's going on in the UK?
Should we talk about a tense atmosphere between the communities, intolerance, the consequences of Brexit?
In any case, no one seems spared.
After the North Irish on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the Scots close to breaking up, the Europeans who feel discriminated against, the Labor Party accused of anti-Semitism, here is the conservative party in power in turmoil.
Over a thousand complaints about Muslims have been investigated in this report.
Anti-Muslim sentiment is very present within the party at the local or individual level, but not at the institutional level.
Yet Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself is singled out because in 2018 he compared Muslim women wearing the full veil to “
letterboxes
”.
Boris Johnson said he was "
sorry
" if his words could strike.
"
Would I use some of the hurtful words from my past writing today?"
No, not now that I am Prime Minister,
”he replied to the authors of the report who advocate a clear code of conduct for all members of the party.
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