Banning people from being able to wear the Islamic full veil in public would be “un-British”, the immigration minister has said – and we at UK Herd are inclined to agree with him.

Damian Green said in the Sunday Telegraph that trying to pass such a law would be at odds with the UK’s “tolerant and mutually respectful society”.

It comes just after Tory MP Philip Hollobone introduced a private members’ bill which could make it illegal to wear Islamic veils.

Last week in France, French MPs voted to ban the wearing of burkas in public, though the vote has not yet been passed into law as it will need to pass a vote in the French second level, and face futher constitutional scrutiny.

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