Tory Chairman Kevin Hollinrake has backed Robert Jenrick’s call this morning to ban the burka, claiming the UK needs to take “a tougher line” on those who “want to live separate from the rest of society“. It’s not official Conservative policy… “yet”.
He told Julia Hartley-Brewer on TalkTV:
“I think he was expressing a personal view, I might express a similar personal view actually. I think it is very damaging to have that kind of separation in our societies. I think it’s not official policy yet, we need to develop our policy properly… and that’s what Kemi has been very clear on. She’s always spoken out about things like first cousin marriages and second cousin marriages… we need to take a tougher line with these people who want to live separate from the rest of society. That is not healthy for our societies… I think it’s a debate we need to have.”
Earlier this year Kemi Badenoch said such a ban “won’t fix the problem of cultural separatism“. Her shadow cabinet colleagues clearly aren’t shy in expressing different ‘personal views’…
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