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A Conservative peer has resigned from the parliamentary grouping of the party because of “how far right my party has moved”.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who was made a peer by David Cameron in 2007 and later served as chair of the Conservatives, explained her resolution on social media.
She wrote: “It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the
Conservatives whip.”
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Shortly after her assertion was released, the Conservative Party said: “Complaints were got referring to divisive language allegedly ragged by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi. Baroness Warsi was informed an investigation was about to originate up earlier this week.
“We have a responsibility to ensure that all complaints are investigated without prejudice.”
Baroness Warsi added: “Here is a unhappy day for me.
“I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current party are far removed from the party I joined and served in cabinet.
“My resolution is a reflection of how some distance comely my party has moved and the hypocrisy and double requirements in its therapy of varied communities.
“A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter.”
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No longer taking the whip come Baroness Warsi will no longer be anticipated to vote alongside party lines, nevertheless would possibly even no longer gather the advantages of being allotment of the parliamentary grouping.
She has been a vocal campaigner on Islamophobia for the length of the Conservative Party, and has no longer been panicked to criticise senior figures.
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Her closing put in government was as a Foreign Office minister in 2014, which she resigned from over the federal government’s stance on Gaza.
She claimed the UK’s stance at the time was “morally indefensible” and proceeded to demand a weapons embargo to be placed on Israel.
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Extra at the moment, she accused Grant Shapps of igniting a “weird culture war spat around wokery” when he was defence secretary.
And last one year she known as Suella Braverman “dangerous” and “divisive” over feedback the broken-down house secretary made about professional-Palestine marches.
