Raab: Party can't act on Islamophobia claim 'in absence of formal complaint'

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Nusrat Ghani must lodge a formal complaint to the Tory party if she wants allegations of Islamophobia to be properly investigated, Deputy PM Dominic Raab tells LBC. TomSwarbrick1 | SwarbrickOnSunday

"So it's up to her to make the complaint", Tom said, closing the line of inquiry. Mr Raab jumped in.

"To trigger the formal process that's right for her to consider", he said, reiterating the earlier point that Ms Ghani should make a formal complaint.Rachel Johnson spoke to Nusrat Ghani MP for Global original podcast Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women. Listen here. Boris Johnson met with Nusrat Ghani to discuss her "extremely serious claims" that she was sacked as a minister because of concerns about her "Muslimness", Downing Street has said. A No 10 spokesman said in a statement that the Prime Minister invited her to make a formal complaint but she did not do so.

"After being made aware of these extremely serious claims, the Prime Minister met with Nusrat Ghani to discuss them," the spokesman said. "He then wrote to her expressing his serious concern and inviting her to begin a formal complaint process. She did not subsequently do so.

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