'Ban Muslim ghettos, says Cameron'
David Cameron today vowed to break up Muslim ghettos in Britain's cities. In the most frank comments on the issue by a major party leader, he used his keynote party conference speech to say Britain had made an error by allowing ghettos to develop. "It worries me that we have allowed communities to grow up which live 'parallel lives'," he said in an extract of today's speech obtained in advance by the Evening Standard. "Communities where people from different backgrounds never meet, never talk, never go into each others' homes," said the Tory leader.
Evening Standard, 4 October 2006
Significant that, of all the issues dealt with in Cameron's speech, this is the one the Standard has seized on and advertised with a banner headline.
Martin Sullivan