Get Surrey: Baroness Warsi presents Christmas tree to Woking

Baroness Warsi presents Christmas tree to the town of Woking Baroness Warsi became the latest high-profile name to present the giant Woking Asian Business Forum (WABF) Christmas tree to the people of the town. The forum has presented the tree to the town for the past seven years. WABF Chairman, Mr Shahid Azeem, said that the tree represented ‘community cohesion” and a “strong respect for all cultures” at what is a happy time of year.

The Tablet: Baroness Warsi – ‘we should have seen the Iraq crisis coming’

During my time in Government I regularly spoke about religious freedom and the increase in the persecution of religious minorities. In a speech I gave at Georgetown University in Washington last November I talked about a global crisis of increasing religious persecution, especially in those countries where Christianity was born. I warned that a mass exodus was already taking place on a biblical scale. https://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/421/we-should-have-seen-the-iraq-crisis-coming

Independent: Baroness Warsi – ‘I want to be able to live with myself after politics’

“For me, this is all about policies and principles. Long after politics has come and gone, I want to be able to live with myself. And at this point I said, after politics has come and gone, can I live with myself? And I thought ‘no I can’t’.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/baroness-warsi-i-want-to-be-able-to-live-with-myself-after-politics-9659443.html

Independent: Praise for Baroness Warsi – ‘Her action reflects the mood of Dewsbury – and of Britain’

Praise for Baroness Warsi: ‘Her action reflects the mood of Dewsbury – and of Britain’ The decision of the daughter of a local Pakistani mill worker, who attended a comprehensive school just a few hundred yards from here, to reject the trappings of power over her Government’s “morally indefensible position” on the Middle East, has turned her into a heroine in her home town. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/praise-for-baroness-warsi-her-action-reflects-the-mood-of-dewsbury-and-of-britain-9658042.html