{"id":1235864,"date":"2022-01-24T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1235864"},"modified":"2022-01-24T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T20:23:32","slug":"uk-launches-investigation-into-mps-claim-she-was-fired-from-govt-role-for-being-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-launches-investigation-into-mps-claim-she-was-fired-from-govt-role-for-being-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Launches Investigation Into MP&#039;s Claim She Was Fired From Govt Role For Being Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-launches-investigation-into-mps-claim-she-was-fired-from-govt-role-for-being-muslim%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1235864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1232459432-e1643020311658-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">LONDON (AP) \u2013 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered an investigation into a Conservative lawmaker\u00b4s claim that she was fired from a government job in part because of her Muslim faith.<\/p>\n<p>Former Transport Minister Nusrat Ghani says that when she was demoted in 2020, a government whip said her \u201cMuslimness\u201d was \u201cmaking colleagues uncomfortable.\u201d She told the Sunday Times that she was told \u201cthere were concerns `that I wasn\u00b4t loyal to the party as I didn\u00b4t do enough to defend the party against Islamophobia allegations.\u00b4\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chief Whip Mark Spencer identified himself as the person who spoke to Ghani in 2020, but called her allegation \u201ccompletely false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u00b4s office said Monday that the prime minister had asked government officials \u201cto establish the facts about what happened.\u201d It said Johnson \u201ctakes these claims very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghani was elected to Parliament in 2015, and was made a junior minister in 2018. At the time her boss, then-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, said it was proof the Conservatives \u201cwere a party of opportunity.\u201d But some have accused the party of failing to stamp out anti-Muslim prejudice under Johnson, who in 2018 compared women who wear face-covering veils to \u201cletter boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Muslim Council Of Britain Call For Tory \u2018Islamophobia\u2019 Investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vneghPAiPI\">https:\/\/t.co\/vneghPAiPI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0cfpr1dzDy\">pic.twitter.com\/0cfpr1dzDy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/731043852522389504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two senior Cabinet ministers, Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, spoke in support of Ghani and said her claims must be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a lot of bravery for someone to stand up and say: `My religion was taken into consideration when I was being assessed for what I do as a job,\u00b4\u201d Zahawi said. \u201cThat should never happen and there is no room for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghani\u00b4s claim has deepened the rifts roiling Johnson\u00b4s governing party, which is being wracked by allegations about lockdown-breaching parties in the prime minister\u00b4s office while Britain was under coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpartygate\u201d allegations are being investigated by a senior civil servant, Sue Gray, who is expected to report this week.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani\u00b4s allegation comes after another Conservative legislator, William Wragg, accused party whips of intimidating and blackmailing members of Parliament to ensure they supported the government. Wragg says he is meeting with police this week to discuss his claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2013 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered an investigation into a Conservative lawmaker\u00b4s claim that she was fired from a government job in part because of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}