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Tory activist sent minister Nusrat Ghani emails praising Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech

SHIPPING MINISTER Nusrat Ghani has been bombaraded with emails from a Tory activist praising Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech.

Ghani is the UK government's only female Muslim minister and she has termed the messages "disgusting", reported the Guardian.


David Proudfoot, a Tory party activist, has sent her emails questioning whether immigrants should be allowed to stand for parliament. Proudfoot also says that the country should be controlled by “our own people, not people from a different culture.” He has also called for an end to “ghettoes like little Pakistans”.

In one email sent to Ghani, who was born in Kashmir and brought up in Birmingham, Proudfoot wrote: “It is widely accepted that the country is being dragged down by certain undisciplined immigrants and the British people demand a resolution. Should we allow immigrants to be elected to our parliament?

“Do we not have 650 men and women of heritable British people that are intelligent enough to run our country? We want to be controlled by our own people, not people from a different culture.”

He wrote: “Immigrants coming here think they have won the lottery but they rarely integrate … We finish with ghettoes like little Pakistans. Can anyone say that Enoch Powell wasn’t right with his ‘rivers of blood’ speech?”

The former Tory party chairman Sayeeda Warsi has been calling for an inquiry into Islamophobia in the party. She has often criticised prime minister Theresa May for failing to address this "deep-rooted problem" in the party.

Reacting to the emails sent to Ghani, Baroness Warsi tweeted: “When senior members of the party like @Nus_Ghani who identify as Muslim are subjected to such Islamophobic abuse and harassment, it raises real concerns about the abuse that more junior members of the party are having to endure at a grassroots level.”

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