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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Party 'Contributing to Extremism and Undermining Democracy' Voters Say After Sunak's 'Mob Rule' Rant
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/excl ... irect=true8 MAR 2024
Voters simply do not buy Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s claims that “mob rule” and extremists have taken over Britain – and argue instead his party is contributing to anti-Muslim hate and undermining democracy.
Last Friday, following George Galloway’s election in Rochdale following a fraught, Gaza-focused campaign, PM Sunak urged the country to “face down the extremists who would tear us apart”.
It was quickly blasted as hollow. The PM had failed to robustly condemn Lee Anderson, the former Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party, who claimed that London Mayor Sadiq Khan was under the influence of "Islamist" associates. Sunak also refused to withdraw the whip from ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who penned an article in the Telegraph, claiming that “the Islamists, the extremists, and the antisemites are in charge now” over the weekly London pro-ceasefire protests.
Nor did he act when former Prime Minister Liz Truss claimed that “radical Islam is becoming mainstream in British politics” and stayed silent while her far-right US interviewer Steve Bannon praised EDL thug Tommy Robinson. Truss is courting the radical right on the global stage, and he will do nothing about it.
Now an exclusive new poll conducted by WeThink for Byline Supplement suggests the British public has widespread concerns over the Conservative party's role in the so-called culture wars.