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Muslim groups have ‘no trust’ in Tory Islamophobia report
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
MUSLIM groups have said they do not trust the conclusions of a report into racism in the Tory Party, which they said failed to acknowledge the term Islamophobia.
The indendent report has been branded a whitewash by campaigners and Muslim organisations after its author Professor Swaran Singh concluded that no evidence of institutional racism in the party was found.
The fallout from the report, published on Tuesday, continued today as calls grew for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to launch its own investigation into racism in the Tory Party.
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