Posts from the ‘Media’ Category

The Guardian: Sayeeda Warsi – Tories will lose if they focus only on Europe and immigration

Sayeeda Warsi – Tories will lose if they only focus on Europe and immigration

Lady Warsi claims that while contending with Ukip is necessary, a lurch to the right by David Cameron would spell defeat

The Guardian: Lady Warsi on Palestine, Islam, quitting and how to stay true to your beliefs

Lady Warsi on Palestine, Islam, quitting and how to stay true to your beliefs

In her first major interview since the turmoil following her resignation, the first Muslim minister tells Mark Townsend of her struggle at the dispatch box and why her book won’t tell tales

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

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.

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

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’.”

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.

Caravan Daily: Importance of Being Sayeeda Warsi

Caravan Daily: Importance of Being Sayeeda Warsi

Britain’s Foreign Office Minister, Sayeeda Warsi, has stunned everyone with her resignation over the UK government’s stand on Gaza. Will the powerful Zionist lobby forgive the first Muslim woman minister for her audacity?

Channel 4 Exclusive: ‘Why I quit over Gaza’ – Baroness Warsi

In her first interview, the minister who quit over Gaza, says she had to stand down because of the UK’s “indefensible” position. Sayeeda Warsi says the government should not have “dragged its heels”.