UK minister's sacking over ‘Muslimness' to be investigated

Former junior transport minister says she was told her faith was “making colleagues uncomfortable,” before being fired
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a formal inquiry into an allegation by former junior transport minister Nusrat Ghani that she lost her job in early 2020 because she's Muslim.
Johnson “takes these claims very seriously” and has “asked the Cabinet Office to conduct an inquiry” into them, Downing Street said in a statement on Monday.
When Ghani first made the allegation two years ago, the PM “recommended to her that she make a formal complaint to. She did not take up this offer,” the statement pointed out.
“The Prime Minister has now asked officials to establish the facts about what happened.”
Tory MP Ghani has told the Sunday Times that a government whip had said that her “Muslimness was raised as an issue” before her firing from

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