Tory Islamophobia row: Warsi accuses Hancock of 'whitesplaining'

[Denzil_DC]

1. It's horrible to see racism of any sort used a electoral fodder.

Not that I believe that's what Warsi is doing here.

Johnson has now backtracked on an undertaking he sort of made in one of the leadership debates to conduct a party inquiry into Islamophobia (they're supposedly going to hold one into all forms of racism, but don't hold your breath, especially with the last year's influx of ex-UKIPers).

There are party political reasons for this. The BAME vote skews Labour in big conurbations. It's been commonplace during the last year's by-elections when Labour has held seats to see comments online about "dozens of [insert epithet here] living in the same house and the father tells the others how to vote" etc.

The last statistics we have show that not just Islamophobia, but anti-Semitism is more prevalent among Tories than Labour supporters. For some reason that's almost never an issue the media and certain prominent anti-racist activists hammer the Tories about.