Leaked Emails Show A Tory Official Raised Members’ Anti-Muslim Facebook Posts With Brandon Lewis Last Year
A Conservative Party official informed chairman Brandon Lewis and the party's complaints department about Islamophobic Facebook posts by Tory members last year, but no action was taken until BuzzFeed News raised the posts with the party this week.
The official asked Lewis and the complaints team to make sure the posts “are reviewed and anyone who is a member of ours have their membership removed if they have expressed racist or anti-Islam rhetoric”.On November 2, the official sent a follow up email to the complaints team asking if the posts had been investigated and whether the party had identified those responsible as members.
But responding to this story, former Tory party chairman Sayeeda Warsi told BuzzFeed News: “The only time we get results is when the party is brought to the table kicking and screaming and when it is shamed into making suspensions. Yesterday, the Conservative Party re-suspended Mick Murphy, a Tory councillor in Ashfield, after BuzzFeed News revealed he had been reinstated to the party despite sharing aTory members in the Rees-Mogg supporters’ Facebook group – which is not affiliated with the party and has been condemned by the Brexiteer MP – had targeted Home Secretary Sajid Javid with abusive comments.
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