Rishi Sunak urged to speak out by Tory peer as Islamophobia row deepens

If you can't call Islamophobia Islamophobia, then how are we going to fix it?' says Sayeeda Warsi

Rishi Sunak has been urged to break his silence over a mounting Islamophobia row as senior Conservatives criticised the dangerous" rhetoric of the party's former deputy chair.

Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, lost the Conservative party whip on Saturday after refusing to apologise for saying Islamists had got control of" Sadiq Khan. Anderson claimed on GB News that the London mayor had given our capital city away to his mates".