May must learn from Labour mistakes and stamp out Tory Islamophobia | Jonathan Freedland

Boris Johnson’s burqa remarks were not a one-off. The Conservatives need to show zero tolerance to such damaging derision

Now we know that Boris Johnson’s defining ideology – cakeism – spreads beyond Brexit. In his Telegraph column on the burqa that has led to calls for his suspension from the Conservative party and demands from the prime minister that he apologise, the former foreign secretary wanted, yet again, to have his cake and eat it.

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