Category: Newspaper Articles

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi urges an inquiry into Tory islamophobia claims. Lady Warsi: Tories’ handling of allegations of Islamophobia has been “woefully inept” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44709556

‘For days I kept the letter in my handbag. And even on the morning I planned to resign I thought to myself, am I really going to do this?’ https://www.redonline.co.uk/red-women/blogs/a516012/baroness-warsi-interview/

In an interview with Red Magazine she said: “Men resign, women ‘flounce’. Men have an opinion, women are ‘bitchy’. Men are forceful, women are ‘awkward’. “It’s time we started pushing back against that kind of language.” https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/03/baroness-warsi-women-politics_n_6260426.html

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 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/24/sayeeda-warsi-cameron-immigration-eu-tories-defeat

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

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

“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