Baroness Warsi resigns from Tories, citing the party’s shift to the far-right
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has resigned from the Conservative party after claiming the Tories have become too ‘far-right’.
The former co-chairwoman of the Tories, currently serving as a peer in the House of Lords, said the party had displayed ‘hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities’.
In a post on X announcing her resignation, Warsi said: ‘It is with a heavy heart that I have today informed my whip and decided for now to no longer take the @Conservatives whip.
‘This is a sad day for me. I am a Conservative and remain so but sadly the current party are far removed from the party I joined and served in cabinet.
‘My decision is a reflection of how far right my party has moved and the hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities. A timely reminder of the issues that I raise in my book Muslims Don’t Matter.’
Her resignation comes after recently calling Tory leadership frontrunner Robert Jenrick a ‘tool’ following his claims that protestors should be arrested if they shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’.
She said on X: ‘Everyday before we start parliamentary business in the Commons and Lords we say a prayer and praise God – we say our parliamentary version of Allah hu Akbars at the heart of democracy – a process Robert Jenrick is a part of.
‘This language from Jenrick is more of his usual nasty divisive rhetoric – he is such a tool.’
Ms Warsi has been a longstanding critic of Islamophobia within the Conservative party, resigning from government in 2014 over the Cameron government’s ‘morally indefensible’ position on Gaza.
In her 2014 resignation letter, Warsi said the then-Tory government’s ‘approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible, is not in Britain’s national interest and will have a long term detrimental impact on our reputation internationally and domestically’.
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