.... I believe the Government should be more robust in determining the guidelines. No manner of dress should be compulsory. Girls in schools should not be forced to wear religious dress when they are too young to question it.
In hospitals, the concern that patients should be able to see health-care professionals’ faces is a valid one. A lot of the arguments against the niqab are valid, but I am not sure that they call for a ban. [telegraph.co.uk, 20 September] Read more
