Responding, , Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party, said:
“The Conservative Party has accepted all the recommendations set
out by the independent investigation into racism and
discrimination.
“Any incident of discrimination is wrong, and we must work harder
to stamp out discrimination of all kinds. We held this
investigation because we are determined to right these wrongs.
“On behalf of the Conservative Party I would like to apologise to
anyone who has been hurt by discriminatory behaviour of others or
failed by our system.
“We held this investigation to address these allegations to make
sure that any instances of discrimination are isolated and to
look at how we can improve and strengthen our complaints process.
“The Conservative Party will continue to take a zero-tolerance
approach to discrimination of any kind and take immediate action
to improve our handling of complaints.
“It is clear that there have been failings in our complaints
process and we will begin work on implementing the
recommendations set out by the investigation. We will be
publishing our plan to implement these recommendations in six
weeks’ time.
“I welcome the independent investigation’s findings that there is
no evidence of anti-Muslim complaints being dealt with
differently or that there is any evidence of political
interference decisions of complaints.
“We committed to holding an investigation during the 2019
leadership race following accusations of discrimination within
the Party.”
