LONDON: A British Parliament member said he was fired from the work of the minister in Prime Minister Boris Johnson partly because his Muslim faith made his colleague uncomfortable, weeks reported.
Nusrat Ghani, 49, who lost his job as Minister of Transportation Junior in February 2020, told the paper told by “whip” – a parliament enforcer – that “Muslim” has been raised as a problem in his dismissal.
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There was no direct response to his comments from the Johnson street office, but Mark Spencer, the head of the Whip government, said he was the person at the center of Ghani’s charges.
“This accusation is really wrong and I consider them to slander,” he said on Twitter.
“I never used those words associated with me.” Ghani’s statement came after one of his conservative colleagues said he would meet the police to discuss allegations that the whip government had tried to “squeeze” parliamentary members who were allegedly trying to force Johnson from the office of the anger of the community held at the Covid office.
The scandal has spent public support from Johnson personally and his party, presented it with the most serious crisis of his premiership.
“I was told that at a reshuffle meeting at Downing Street that ‘Muslim’ was raised as a ‘problem’, that the status of ‘Muslim female minister’ I made his colleague uncomfortable,” This paper quoted Ghani, the first Muslim minister of British women, as the saying.
“I will not pretend that this does not shake my faith in the party and sometimes I seriously consider whether it will continue as a member of parliament (MP).” In his response, Spencer said Ghani had refused to put this problem for a formal internal investigation when he first raised the problem last March.
The Conservative Party previously faced allegations of Islamophobia, and a report in May last year criticized him about how he dealt with complaints discrimination against Muslims.
The report also led Johnson to issue a qualified apology for each violation caused by his past statement about Islam, including the newspaper column where he called a woman wearing a burqa as “touring looked like a box box”.
Keer Starmer’s main opposition labor leader said conservatives immediately investigated Ghani’s account.
“This is surprising to read,” he said on Twitter.
Ghani’s comments about whip behavior also echo the accusations from other senior conservatives William Wragg, that some of his colleagues faced intimidation and extortion because of their desire to dropping Johnson.
“Nus was very brave to speak.
I was really surprised to know his experience,” Wragg said on Twitter on Saturday.
He had told the daily telegraph newspaper that he would meet the police early next week to discuss his charges.
Johnson said he did not see or hear the evidence to support the Wragg claim.
His office said he would see evidence like that “very careful”.
“As with such accusations, if a crime is reported to Met, it will be considered,” said a spokesman for the London Metropolitan Police.
Johnson, who in 2019 won the biggest majority of his party in more than 30 years, struggled to support his authority after the “Partygate” scandal, which followed criticism of the government’s handling of the row of corruption and the other steps.
Johnson, who has repeatedly apologized for the parties and said he was not aware of many of them, had admitted he was attending what he said he thought was a working event on May 20 last year, when social mixing was mostly prohibited.
The invitation has asked the staff to “bring their own liquor” to the event.
Sue Gray’s senior civil servant is expected to give a report to the parties next week, with many conservative parliamentarians say they will wait for his findings before deciding whether they will take action to dropping Johnson.