This is absolute nonsense Kemi and you know it.
I met you alongside other colleagues over a year and a half ago and the definition was explained to you in detail - you were asked to detail your concerns / any objections and the basis of it .
You DID NOT follow up.
Instead all work on Islamophobia ( or whatever you feel we are allowed to call our racism ) has stopped.
Ministers do not even engage with the governments OWN cross government working group on your preferred “anti Muslim hatred”
The government has dragged its heels on any work to tackle this form of racism.
The only structures and programs that still survive are what we put in place during a Cameron government over a decade ago.
Amazing flagship programs like Remembering Srebrenica have been defunded.
No new initiatives , no engagement with communities , no definition
Instead culture wars , othering and blatant anti Muslim racism.
As for “blasphemy laws” - you know this isn’t true , as was explained and evidenced in our meeting and as you are well aware the definition like the IHRA definition on antisemitism is a NON legally binding working definition not a “law”
PS- just so colleagues word sensibilities are not triggered - the World will in a few weeks mark the United Nations International day to combat #Islamophobia.
As the issue of compensation for miscarriages of justice is rightly in the news, it’s timely to note that in 2014, the government changed the law to make it all but impossible for people wrongly convicted and imprisoned to claim compensation.
@RestIsPolitics@RoryStewartUK@campbellclaret Given possible Russian interference, AI and Cambridge Analytical type companies, what are the chances of the 2024 general election being free and fair?
Unless this is sufficiently widely disseminated via social media, it will never gain traction. Few, if any, mainstream papers or news outlets will touch the subject.
Where France leads, will other EU county’s follow?
Post-Brexit visa red tape may be scrapped for Britons with second homes in France - inews https://t.co/WgYdd7JuBz
@RestIsPolitics At what point does resisting calls for a general election become a negative for the Tories electorally.
It was about 24 months ago for me but appreciate I may not be neutral in this matter.