London is expected to become the first Western capital with a Muslim mayor this week despite an increasingly desperate and divisive Conservative campaign against him.
A former Conservative Party candidate for the House of Commons told The Daily Beast that Prime Minister David Cameron and his party were running “a purely racist campaign” against human-rights lawyer and prospective London mayor, Sadiq Khan.
“The Conservative Party are fighting Sadiq Khan for being a Muslim and not fighting him for being Labour,” said Shazia Awan. “What they are doing is fundamentally wrong.”
Awan, who has worked alongside Conservative leaders including Cameron, William Hague and Margaret Thatcher, said she was heartbroken to see the party stoop to racial division.
After Khan took a commanding lead in the opinion polls, Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate, and his allies began to paint Khan as a “dangerous” radical with links to Islamic extremists.
When he was working as a lawyer Khan did represent a number of what he described as “unsavoury individuals” some of whom were convicted of terror-related offenses.
Goldsmith’s closing pitch to the electorate in the race to replace Boris Johnson was a controversial article in the Mail on Sunday in which he described the risks of handing over control of Scotland Yard and London’s counter-terror command to Khan.
David Cameron & Shazia Awan
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