Conservatives suspend 14 members over Islamophobic comments

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Baroness Warsi
Baroness Warsi claims the Tory party is ‘institutionally Islamophobic’
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The Conservatives have suspended 14 party members for allegedly posting a series of anti-Muslim comments on social media.

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