Overview
- Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards will not investigate Timothy after a complaint from 30 MPs and peers, including 22 from Labour, over his description of a mass prayer as an 'act of domination'.
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the remarks as 'utterly appalling' and urged Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to remove Timothy from the shadow cabinet.
- Badenoch defended her colleague’s right to speak and said she supports public prayer for all faiths while criticising gender-segregated events she views as not inclusive.
- Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he would ban mass religious observances at historic sites, but No 10 stated there will be no ban on open-air prayer and affirmed freedoms of religion, expression and assembly.
- The Trafalgar Square gathering, organised by the Ramadan Tent Project and attended by Mayor Sadiq Khan, drew about 3,000 people and has prompted further calls from figures such as Danny Kruger to curb large-scale religious rituals in prominent civic spaces.