Farage’s attack on Turkish barber shops is dog-whistle racism, minister says

Miatta Fahnbulleh accuses Reform leader of politics of grievance' while having no plan to fix UK high streets

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Nigel Farage's attack on Turkish barber shops amounts to dog-whistle racism without a credible plan to fix struggling high streets across the country, a government minister has said.

Miatta Fahnbulleh, the devolution, faith and communities minister, said the Reform UK leader was deploying the politics of grievance" as his populist rightwing party attempts to capitalise on high street decline.