Conservatives under fire for failing to tackle party's Islamophobia

Lady Warsi said it was a shame it could require such a public rebuke for the Tories to start confronting the issue.The Conservatives have been accused of failing to take the issue of Islamophobia seriously by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which is calling for an independent inquiry into a problem it said had “poisoned” sections of the party.Conservative party officials insisted they were treating the issue seriously, but the MCB cited nine cases of anti-Islam sentiment from To