A BERKSHIRE MP has called for an independent inquiry into Islamophobia within the Conservative party.

Slough MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi claims Boris Johnson’s history of demeaning racist remarks has set the tone for his Government's indifferent approach to tackling it.

It comes after former Tory minister Nusrat Ghani accused the Government of Islamophobia after Boris Johnson 'refused to intervene' when made aware of her complaints.

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Nusrat Ghani said she was told by an unnamed Government whip that her faith was “making colleagues uncomfortable” when she lost her job as a transport minister in 2020.

Downing Street later announced that the Prime Minister had met with Ghani to discuss her “extremely serious claims” that she was sacked as a minister because of concerns about her “Muslimness”.

A No 10 spokesperson said in a statement that the Prime Minister invited her to make a formal complaint but she did not do so.

Tan Dhesi appeared on Sky News this evening (January 24) expressing his solidarity with Nusrat.

He said: "It should really not have come to this. What I asked the Prime Minister back in 2019, when I called him out on his derogatory and divisive disparaging remarks towards to Muslim women describing them as looking like bank robbers and letterboxes and asked him: one, to issue an apology; and secondly, that there needed to be an indepedent inquiry into Islamophobia within the Conservative Party.

"Given the increased prevalence of those incidents and given that his comments led to a spike in hate crime and language matters and that is why I think that the tone that was set has meant that issues, such as Islamophobia have not bene taken seriously by the Conservative party and I hope that we not only will have this inquiry but that we have a wider indepedent inquiry and something the Equalities and Human Rights Commission needs to investigate."