Labour has called on Badenoch to sack Timothy over the comments, with party chair Anna Turley branding them “utterly appalling”.<\/p>\n
Khan hit back in a newspaper interview, saying that Trafalgar Square had hosted public events for Christians, Hindus and Sikhs.<\/p>\n
“What is so objectionable to the Conservative Party about Muslims celebrating their religion in the way that we do?” he added.<\/p>\n
But speaking at an event to launch her party’s campaign for May’s local elections in England, Badenoch said her “fantastic” frontbench colleague Nick Timothy had been trying to make a point about the “norms of British culture”.<\/p>\n
Claiming that women at the event had been “pushed to the back,” she said the gathering had been “exclusionary”.<\/p>\n
“It is about how religion is expressed in a shared public space, and whether those expressions fit within the norms of British culture, ” she added. <\/p>\n
In a BBC interview after the event, she went on to add: “I think that we need to look at exactly why and how it happened in that space.<\/p>\n
“We already have loads of planning rules to say what events can go on, and which ones cannot. I don’t think that that was one that should have gone on. So let’s look at the rules that allowed that to happen.”<\/p>\n
Asked why she had mentioned the place of women when this had not featured in Timothy’s original criticism of the event, she replied: “My position has been very clear, and very consistent.<\/p>\n
“We need to bring back British values. We need to make sure that we enforce British identity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour has called on Badenoch to sack Timothy over the comments, with party chair Anna Turley branding them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-484597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}