BFH1 Sayeeda Warsi

Sayeeda Warsi, Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet Minister, uses her experience in government and in Muslim communities to reflect on the rising tide of Islamophobia. In Muslims Don’t Matter, Baroness Warsi looks at the far-right riots that broke out in 2024,  at Muslim-directed hatred during the war on Gaza, and at how the media continue to fuel an anti-Muslim narrative and urges us to unite against it. In conversation with documentary filmmaker Marion Milne.

Sayeeda Warsi is a lawyer, businesswoman and fearless racial justice campaigner. She was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer at the age of 36, served as Chairman of the Conservative Party, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and as Minister for Faith and Communities. She presents the podcast A Muslim and a Jew Go There with David Baddiel.