A Tory shadow minister is at the centre of a row over integration today after claiming that Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’.
Blake Stephenson, who represents the neighbouring seat of Mid-Bedfordshire and lives nearby, made the controversial remarks in a debate on immigration at the Conservative Party Conference.
Mr Stephenson, who was made a shadow Home Office minister in a reshuffle a fortnight ago, said the town, which has a large Muslim population, was ‘a shadow of its former self’.
Attacking ‘ghettoes’ he told the Centre for Policy Studies event in Birmingham: ‘There are parts of that town unfortunately
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