The House of Commons in London (photo credit: CC BY-Alan Cleaver, Flickr)
A British minister who was the first Muslim woman to sit in the Cabinet has resigned over the British government’s policy on Gaza, she said Tuesday.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a minister at the Foreign Office and minister for faith and communities, wrote on Twitter: “With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza.”
Warsi’s parents were Pakistani immigrants and she was made a member of the House of Lords in 2007.
She was appointed to Cameron’s Cabinet when his coalition government took power in 2010 and while she initially had a high media profile, her star had dimmed in recent years.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (photo credit: Wikimedia commons/ http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/baroness-warsi-minister-without-portfolio / Open Government Licence v1.0)
She was shuffled out of the full Cabinet, the powerful inner circle of government ministers, in 2012.
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Cameron’s coalition government has drawn criticism, including from the opposition Labour party, for not taking a tougher line against Israel over operations in Gaza.
He said on Monday that the UN was “right” to condemn the shelling of a UN school in Gaza which killed 10 people on Sunday but declined to say whether he thought it breached international law.
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