Labour’s Islamophobia Definition Gives Grooming Gangs ‘Impunity’
23rd September 2025
Grooming gangs will be able to carry out their crimes with “impunity” if a new definition of Islamophobia is given the go-ahead, the Conservatives have warned.
Writing in The Times, Claire Coutinho, the shadow equalities minister, said that the definition risked intensifying the “culture of censorship” by creating a “special status” for one group over others.
She claimed that Labour was only pressing ahead with the new definition to stave off the threat posed by pro-Gaza candidates at the next election.