The sister-in-law of former Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that a rise in the number of Muslims would be ‘good’ for Britain.
Lauren Booth, who converted to Islam last year, told the University of Essex’s annual Islamic Conference in Colchester that since becoming a Muslim she was a ‘better worker’ and a ‘better mother’ to her two daughters.
Ms Booth was asked how her sister Cherie Blair and the former Prime Minister had reacted to her conversion.
She replied: ‘My sister…recognises that it is a great faith that people follow. Tony Blair is Tony Blair.’ Ms Booth told of the peace she had found when visiting a mosque in Iran.
‘It’s equivalent to having two spliffs and a bottle of wine,’ she said.
