Office managers should be able to ban employees from wearing burkas, Kemi Badenoch has said.
The Tory leader hit out at the Islamic traditional dress and said she had 'strong views about face coverings' and would not allow people into her constituency surgeries if they wore them.
Her remarks came after Reform's chairman Zia Yusuf quit following a row over the subject after his colleague MP Sarah Pochin urged the Prime Minister to ban the burka 'in the interests of public safety'- before rejoining on Saturday night.
Mrs Badenoch said Britain could enforce a ban on burkas but what needs to be addressed are pressing issues around integration.
She added that sharia courts and first-cousin marriage are an 'insidious' barrier to integration.
