THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: The MP who is refusing to hold meetings with Muslim women wearing full Islamic dress faces legal action.
In an interview with The Independent this month, Philip Hollobone said he would ask a woman wearing the niqab at his constituency surgery to lift her face veil. If she refused, he would end the interview, although he would take up her case if she later wrote a letter to him.
The human rights group Liberty has written to the Kettering MP warning that his decision would breach the 2006 Equality Act. It told him: “As an MP providing a service? [sic] the obligation under the Equality Act not to discriminate applies to you.” The group “will be happy to represent any of your constituents that you refuse to meet because they are veiled”. >>> Andrew Grice, Political Editor | Sunday, July 25, 2010
