(Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty ImagesOliver Dowden has defended Suella Braverman after she sparked a row by claiminf “Islamists” are running Britain. The deputy prime minister insisted the former home secretary had not “crossed a line”, despite Labour’s Yvette Cooper saying she was speaking “total nonsense”. Dowden said: “I don’t believe that the language used by Suella Braverman has crossed the line whereby she should apologise for it.”Why was Lee Anderson kicked out the party, but Suella Braverman still has the whip? AdvertisementHe said: “It’s right that Lee Anderson has lost the whip after his appalling racist and Islamophobic outburst against Sadiq Khan. “But what does it say about the prime minister’s judgment that he made Lee Anderson deputy chairman of his party?

Source: Huffington Post February 25, 2024 10:40 UTC