UKIP leader defends support for sacked dinner lady
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has denied jumping on a political bandwagon by supporting a primary school dinner lady sacked for accidentally serving pork to a Muslim pupil.
Mr Farage told ITV's Daybreak programme: "It's outrageous...we're so terrified in this country of causing offence to anybody, particularly the Muslim religion."
Inayat Bunglawala, founder of campaign group Muslims4UK, said that the sacking, for a one off mistake, was, on the face of it, an overreaction.
But he added: "I am a bit concerned that a leader of a political party would seek to make capital out of this, because it is a minor issue."
