Boris Johnson’s contempt for Muslim women is part of a dangerous pattern | Sayeeda Warsi

Ridiculing people doesn’t make them more likely to integrate. The Conservative party is alienating a whole section of society

• Tory peer accuses Boris Johnson of making ‘hate crime more likely’

On Monday, in a column in the Daily Telegraph, Boris Johnson compared fully veiled Muslim women to “letter boxes” and “bank robbers”. Thankfully, both the prime minister Theresa May and the Conservative party chair Brandon Lewis have asked Johnson to apologise. Others in my party and in the media have seen fit to defend him. I’d like to set out precisely why his remarks are indefensible, and have no place in the modern Conservative party – and the action I think needs to follow.

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