In Downing Street yesterday, Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner met Muslim community leaders around the Cabinet table. The Prime Minister used the opportunity to take a cheap pot-shot at his political rivals, accusing them of using “unacceptable language” about Islam. This isn’t the first time Labour politicians have accused their rivals of being “Islamophobic” or sought to police speech about Islam. Another revelation from the meeting is that Angela Rayner is reportedly set to announce the appointment of an “anti-Muslim hostility” tsar this week. Rayner appointed five people to a working group tasked with drafting the definition. All had troubling links to Islamist organisations, including the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND. The Communities Department, which Rayner leads, also said it had deleted all responses to the working group’s consultation — responses that were vital to drafting the definition. After pressure from Nick Timothy and the threat of legal action from the Free Speech Union, the ministry announced that it did have the responses after all, but would not show them to us. This has only fuelled speculation that the Government allowed extremists to influence what is now Britain’s de facto Islamic blasphemy law. Who on earth is she going to appoint as the new Islamophobia tsar? Watch FSU Campaigns Officer @MaxHThompson 👇