Controversy over Nick Timothy’s Trafalgar Square Muslim prayer comments | BBC Politics Live
March 18, 2026
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as posted by the channelPM Keir Starmer has attacked Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions following a social media post by shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy which described Muslims - including London Mayor Sadiq Khan - praying in Trafalgar Square as "an act of domination".
Speaking to Vicki Young on BBC Two’s Politics Live, shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins defended her colleague, saying “we have to have, as a society, a sensible conversation about the balance of rights between different groups of people".
Justice Minister Jake Richards called the post “a disgrace” and said that Timothy had “gone down the rabbit hole of online hate and discrimination”.
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