He resigned as chief political columnist of the Daily Telegraph in 2015. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. Most populous nation: Should India rejoice or panic? But Mr Williamson insisted that he does not have 'any recollection' of any such conversation taking place with Mr Wakeford. He moved up to the opposition frontbench as a trade and industry spokesman under Michael Howard in 2003. Nusrat Ghani is a friend, a colleague & a brilliant parliamentarian. 'He wrote to me that he could not get involved and suggested I use the internal Conservative Party complaint process. Ministers have sought to dismiss the allegations, insisting the whips had no role in the allocation of public funding. The inquiry carried out by Prof Singh, a former commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, was established by the party following a series of allegations about Islamophobic behaviour in the party and was widened to consider all forms of discrimination. Tory defector Christian Wakeford claimed he was told funding for a new school in his Bury South constituency would be withheld if he did not back the Government in axing free meals for pupils. HowJock Zonfrillo overcame addiction to take Australia by storm after his death aged 46: Colourful British 'A waste of licence payers' money!' This Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. He is bisexual and has described himself as not exclusively gay. Ms Ghani, who was the first Muslim woman to be elected as a Tory MP in 2015, told the Sunday Timesshe was told by a party whip she was being axedin February 2020 becauseher status as a Muslim woman and a minister was 'making colleagues feel uncomfortable'. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. However, Adam Holloway, the Tory MP for Gravesham, dismissed the 'blackmail' allegations, saying he has 'never known' such behaviour to happen during his time in the Conservativesor Government, adding it'doesn't ring true to me'. Sexual relation with minor students, Wiki, Age, Husband, Family, Bio, Who is Camryn Grimes? Theres a different rule for Muslims. Michael Fabricant He describes himself as "not exclusively gay.". He said since his initial claims, five more He said: 'That Nus could be treated like this is completely intolerable. He has also said he was threatened about the loss of a school in his constituency if he did not toe the line. Michael Fabricant In July 2018, Fabricant was accused of being Islamophobic over a subsequently-deleted tweet he shared depicting London mayor Sadiq Khan, who is a Muslim, in a sex act with a pig. Michael Louis David Fabricant (born 12 June 1950) is a British politician. Tory MP Tom Tugendhat (pictured) has insisted that he has never experienced or witnessed his party's whips use blackmail following the allegations from Mr Wragg. Michael Fabricant has sparked anger after he said the timing of the former transport minister's claim was 'very suspicious', Nusrat Ghani (pictured), the Tory MP for Wealden in East Sussex, was sacked as transport minister in February 2020 as part of a mini-cabinet reshuffle, Mark Spencer outed himself as the whip concerned last night, and branded Ms Ghani's comments 'false' and 'defamatory', 'He then wrote to her expressing his serious concern and inviting her to begin a formal complaint process. Mr Fabricant, whose trademark blond He added: It makes absolutely no difference to how I do my job, but people needed to know and that was all it was, I didn't sort of feel I was a trailblazer in any way.