The Tories have been compared to the incarnation of the Labour Party fronted by Jeremy Corbyn.
Mohammed Amin, the former Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, joined Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster on GB News and demanded the party “get its act together” as it becomes mired in an Islamophobia row.
It comes after the party suspended Lee Anderson for his criticism of Sadiq Khan, with some claiming his comments were Islamophobic.
Amin believes the Tories have an Islamophobia issue and it is a “reroute” of what we saw with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour.
Corbyn grappled with a damaging internal row over anti-Semitism throughout the years of his premiership.
“The party has been going downhill since David Cameron’s time in office”, Amin said.
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GB NEWS“David Cameron worked really hard to detoxify the party. After he became party leader in 2005, he recognised the Conservative Party had a problem.
“He spent two days living with a Muslim family in Birmingham to show he was different.
“When people got out of line under his leadership, they were stamped on firmly.
“The Conservative party has to get its act together. It’s going through an exact reroute of what happened with the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.”
Anderson was suspended over the weekend after he claimed “Islamists” had “got control” of Khan and London.
He told GB News on Monday: “When you think you are right you should never apologise because to do so would be a sign of weakness.”
In a statement to the channel, where he presents a weekly show, he said he had made comments “that some people thought were divisive”.
“Politics is divisive and I am just incredibly frustrated about the abject failures of the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,” Anderson said.
“My words may have been clumsy but my words were borne out of sheer frustration at what is happening to our beautiful capital city.”
In a fresh attack on Khan, the now-independent MP said: “Hundreds of people had been arrested for racist abuse on these marches and we barely hear a peep from the mayor. If these marches were about something less fashionable, Sadiq Khan would have been the first to call for them to be cancelled. It’s double standards for political benefit.”
