What have been called Muslim child rape grooming gangs, and jihadists may be shielded from scrutiny in the public sphere in Britain if the left-wing Labour Party government criminalises so-called “Islamophobia”, a leading Conservative MP warned.

Following the resignation of Deputy PM Angela Rayner earlier this month over a property tax scandal, the task of overseeing the Labour Party’s working group to establish a definition for Islamophobia to institute into law has fallen to Rayner’s replacement as housing and communities secretary, Steve Reed MP.

In 2021, while serving as shadow local government secretary, Reed urged Labour-run councils to adopt the definition of Islamophobia laid out by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims. The definition, which was later adopted by

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