UK lawmaker Nusrat Ghani claims she was fired from ministerial job for her 'Muslimness'

"I was told that at the reshuffle meeting in Downing Street that my ‘Muslim women minister’ status was making colleagues uncomfortable," Ghani, Britain`s first female Muslim minister, said.

LONDON: A British lawmaker has said she was fired from a ministerial job in Prime Minister Boris Johnson`s Conservative government partly because her Muslim faith was making colleagues uncomfortable, Reuters reported on Sunday.

Nusrat Ghani, 49, who lost her job as a junior transport minister in February 2020, told the paper she was told by a "whip" - an enforcer of parliamentary discipline - that her "Muslimness" had been raised as an issue in her sacking.

There was no immediate response to her comments from Johnson`s Downing Street office, but Mark Spencer, the government`s chief whip, said he was the person at the centre of Ghani`s allegations.