The government is expected to announce
plans for community cohesion camps where young people from different backgrounds can come together later today.
The appointment by the Conservative Party of Sayeeda Warsi as shadow minister
for Community Cohesion sends the wrong signal at a time when Britain is fighting a global war against Islamic terrorism and extremism, both domestically and internationally.
I meet the new shadow minister
for community cohesion in a Westminster committee room, fresh from her appearance on Channel Five's The Wright Stuff.
Baroness Warsi, who was shadow minister
for community cohesion when the Tories were in opposition, is the first Muslim woman to serve in a British cabinet.
«I make no apology for returning to the
implications for community cohesion and local government of sharia courts in the UK, a matter on which the new Minister quite properly opined last weekend and which we discussed yesterday.
A day or so after the failed Parliamentary candidate Sayeeda Warsi was elevated to the House of Lords as Shadow
Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action, I happened to be on a television programme with her.
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Fury: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, shadow minister
for community cohesion and social action caused outrage when she hit out at «right wingers»
The recent decision to appoint Sayeeda Warsi to the Shadow Cabinet as Minister
for Community Cohesion was also short - sighted.
Baroness Warsi, shadow minister
for community cohesion, said: «On the day that the prime minister said that he did not approve of personal attacks in politics it would appear that members of the Labour Party failed to heed his message.
I want to put it on record that we are deeply concerned about the paucity of information that we have received from the Home Office and about the implications, therefore,
for community cohesion.
Sayeeda Warsi Having fought Dewsbury in 2005, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2007 as shadow minister
for community cohesion and given a peerage, making her the youngest member of the House of Lords.