Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi
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Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi, is a British lawyer, politician, and member of the House of Lords who served as co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012.
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Lady Warsi with Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in 2010
Lady Warsi meeting Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Rassoul in Kabul in 2013![Warsi at Kutupalong Refugee Camp for Rohingya in Bangladesh in 2013.[33]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Cox%27s_Bazaar_Refugee_Camp_%288539828824%29.jpg/1280px-Cox%27s_Bazaar_Refugee_Camp_%288539828824%29.jpg)
Warsi at Kutupalong Refugee Camp for Rohingya in Bangladesh in 2013.[33]
Warsi leaves 10 Downing Street with William Hague in 2012.
Lady Warsi with Amnesty youth activists who handed over a petition on Afghan women's rights in 2013.
Warsi and Cardinal Nichols in 2012
Lady Warsi meets with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2013.In their own words 6
Of course he should. If you can't call racism racism, if you can't call antisemitism antisemitism, and if you can't call Islamophobia Islamophobia, then how are we going to fix it?
Cited in "Rishi Sunak urged to speak out by Tory peer as Islamophobia row deepens", The Guardian (25 February 2023).
[I] felt it was important as a Muslim to lend my voice to this fight against antisemitism. We have only ever defeated intolerance when we have come together.
From a House of Lords debate on antisemitism, as cited in "Tonge blames Israel for Jew-hate... during debate on antisemitism", The Jewish
I'm really, really hesitant about making this Sayeeda v the Tory party.
2019-2023
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Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi, is a British lawyer, politician, and member of the House of Lords who served as co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in the Cameron-Clegg coalition, first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012, then as the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities, until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy relating to the Israel-Gaza conflict in August 2014. In September 2024 Baroness Warsi resigned the Whip and left the Conservative Party.
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