Islamists are now in charge of Britain, Suella Braverman has said after the Commons Speaker admitted he had been wrong to ignore protocol over security threats to MPs.
In an article for The Telegraph, Mrs Braverman, the former home secretary, said Britain was “sleep-walking into a ghettoised society” that threatened free expression.
Her comments come a day after Sir Lindsay Hoyle sparked a furious backlash over a Gaza ceasefire vote by allowing a vote on a Labour amendment, leading to accusations that he had given in to extremists.
Sir Lindsay said he had broken with convention to allow MPs to vote on the widest possible range of amendments, citing threats that politicians had received over their stance on Israel and Gaza.
On Thursday, Sir Lindsay admitted he had made a “wrong decision” in his effort to protect MPs as he fought to keep his job.
However, Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the Commons, warned on Thursday that changing Commons procedures in the way he had risked undermining democracy and giving in to intimidation by extremists.
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