Chief whip comes forward as person behind ‘Muslimness’ sacking claim

Mark Spencer says accusations are completely false' after Nusrat Ghani says she was told her faith made colleagues uncomfortable'

Mark Spencer, the chief whip, has said a Conservative MP was referring to him when she accused a member of government of telling her she had been sacked from her ministerial post because her Muslim faith was making colleagues uncomfortable".

Boris Johnson faces calls for an inquiry into Nusrat Ghani's claim in an interview with the Sunday Times that, when she lost her job as a transport minister, she was told that Muslimness" had been raised as an problem at a meeting in Downing Street.