Q: You have come out in favour of a ban on the burka. In what context exactly do you mean? In all areas or in public life?
A: I mean in public life and that means schools, it means airports, it means on buses it means on underground stations, it means in banks, it means in shopping centres. It doesn’t necessarily mean walking down the street, that’s rather different.
In all of those places I have mentioned, most of us would not be allowed to wear crash helmets or balaclavas, there is the need in the modern security age for us to show our face and there needs to be a level playing field on that. [Gaps in the Dialogue] Read more
