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Does Nick Timothy deserve to be sacked for his comments about a mass Muslim prayer event
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attended by the London Mayor Sadiq Khan in Trafalgar Square? The Shadow Justice Secretary
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is entitled to express a view about a public religious gathering, isn't he? I think all
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of us should feel free to express views, but when you've got the Shadow Justice Secretary
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criticising an iftar event organised by a Muslim organisation that a previous Conservative Prime Minister, Theresa May, gave an award to
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you have to ask, why has he got a problem with that, but not with Christian prayer events that have happened there
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Hindu prayer events that have happened there, and Jewish prayer events that have happened there
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He seems to have a problem just with Muslims. Now, that is very, very divisive to say that of all the faiths
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there's only one that I don't want to be allowed to happen in public
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all the others can go ahead. The reality, of course, we know why he's not been sacked
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It's because Kemi Baden-Ock is afraid that if she did sack him
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he would go and join reform like so many of her other Conservative MPs have already done
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So she's literally too weak to take action on a Conservative MP
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who has fundamentally, in my view, said something that's racist. He hasn't said it about other prayer events involving other religions
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because they don't segregate women. And it's 2026. Well, some do. And this was in Trafalgar Square. Some do
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None in Trafalgar Square, Mr Reid, as far as I'm aware. What events do you know that have taken place in Trafalgar Square that have segregated women
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Well, as I understand it, again, there wasn't segregation in that way
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There are just parts of the practice of that faith that were carried out But there are Christian denominations I asked a Muslim this morning There are Jewish denominations that do exactly the same thing I asked a Muslim this morning whether women were segregated at that event
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and he said yes so the objection was to women being segregated at an event in Trafalgar
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Square in 2026 Mr Reid you're the one who is talking about community cohesion in this country
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you're talking about improving relations How on earth can a public prayer event that segregates women in Trafalgar Square in 2026 possibly contribute to positive community cohesion
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I'm fully in favour of extending full respect to women and their role in all faiths
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But what Nick Timothy said was nothing to do with that. If you looked at what he said, it was talking about domination because there was an act of prayer that was Muslim in public
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He said nothing about women at that point, and he singled out Muslims in a way that he has not singled out Hindus, Jews or Christians for doing the same thing
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Did he think it was an act of domination when the former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held Hindu religious ceremonies outside Number 10 Downing Street
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Because he didn't say that then, did he? He's just come out and said it now. but Kemi Badenok is too weak to point out to him
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that racism will not be tolerated on the Conservative frontbench because she's terrified of Nigel Farage
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And that's the truth of it. He's running the Tory frontbench now, not Kemi Badenok
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Some might argue that Zak Polanski is running the Labour frontbench, Steve Reid
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Well, I don't really see how. Zak Polanski wants to quit NATO
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and the UK is a strong advocate with this Labour government of nation
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So not true at all, no. All right. Final question, slightly off-piste
