Sayeeda Hussain Warsi warns of ‘respectable racism’
Ms Warsi, the first Muslim woman to attend cabinet when she was co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party, expressed concern that the tone of the Brexit and London mayoral campaigns had helped allow a climate of intimidation.
“I was still disgusted, but more comfortable, with the racism of the 70s and 80s that was overt and thuggish, than this new form of respectable xenophobia where it is done in political circles, journalism, and academia,” the Tory peer told the Guardian.
