‘Rishi Sunak ought to kick out embarrassing Liz Truss too – however he’s too weak’

We’ve grown accustomed to Tory sleaze and scandal below Rishi Sunak’s weak management.

But simply if you thought the Conservatives couldn’t sink any additional, Lee Anderson – somebody the Prime Minister made deputy chairman of his occasion – lowered the bar once more. His disgraceful feedback about London Mayor Sadiq Khan have been unambiguously Islamophobic, divisive and damaging.

The Prime Minister ought to have eliminated the whip as quickly as these phrases left Lee Anderson’s mouth. But it’s clear from their statements that the Conservative Party solely acted as a result of Lee Anderson refused to apologise. They nonetheless don’t get the importance of what he stated.

The concept that he would have remained a Tory MP if he’d simply stated sorry is appalling. The views Anderson expressed have been mistaken, full cease. A robust chief would have proven him the door with out circumstances. But Rishi Sunak isn’t robust. And his weak point means excessive views are taking root within the Conservative Party.

Lee Anderson wasn’t the one backbench MP who peddled far proper rhetoric on the airwaves final week. And his feedback are simply the tip of the iceberg on the subject of Islamophobia within the Conservative Party. Former PM Liz Truss has been spreading harmful conspiracy theories to a bunch of far proper crackpots within the United States to cowl for her personal failures. And former Home Secretary Suella Braverman additionally spouted divisive views about Muslims and their place in British society final week.

This comes off the again of years of inaction to deal with Islamophobia within the Conservative Party, regardless of an impartial investigation virtually three years in the past. In the years since, ignorant and offensive views proceed to be tolerated by the Tories, who’ve additionally did not undertake a definition of Islamophobia and even use that time period.

The Prime Minister needs to be doing all the pieces to rid the Conservatives of those radical and harmful views. Instead, he appears to be tolerating them. That’s why he must additionally take away the whip from Liz Truss for her embarrassing feedback about our nation on the worldwide stage.

And it’s why Lee Anderson shouldn’t have any future within the Conservative Party. This is a sample of behaviour that exposes Rishi Sunak’s weak point and his failure to deal with the extremists in his personal occasion.

After 14 years of failure, all of the Tories have left is the politics of division. Only Labour can carry individuals collectively and get Britain’s future again.