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Baroness Warsi's Nine Most Controversial Moments

Baroness Warsi's Nine Most Controversial Moments
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 08: Baroness Warsi arrives in Downing Street to attend a weekly cabinet meeting on April 8, 2014 in London, England. Prime Minister David Cameron has continued to defend Mrs Miller who was cleared of funding a home for her parents at taxpayers' expense and has repaid £5,800. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
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Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi's dramatic resignation over the UK's "morally indefensible" position on the conflict in Gaza took many by surprise.

Even Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, told reporters this morning that: "It's the first I have heard of it."

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Warsi told the Huffington Post UK that she decided to quit as she was concerned that the UK was failing to act as an "honest broker" in the Middle East and was on the "wrong side of history".

HuffPostUK has rounded up nine more moments when the outspoken baroness has courted controversy.

Baroness Warsi's Controversial Moments
2010: Warsi vs electoral fraud (01 of05)
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Warsi provocatively claimed after the 2010 election that the Tories lost it due to electoral fraud, which resided "predominantly within the Asian community".
2011: Warsi vs dinner-table Islamophobia(02 of05)
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Baroness Warsi warned that prejudice against Muslims had "passed the dinner-table test" and become socially acceptable in Britain.
2012: Warsi vs the Lib Dems (03 of05)
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Warsi accused the Liberal Democrats of deliberately "slagging off the coalition", telling the Independent on Sunday: "It's actually bad taste and mean to say: 'We will take credit for the good stuff and you did all the bad stuff.'""It's almost like going to somebody's house, eating their meal and then slagging it off afterwards, like a bad episode of Come Dine with Me." (credit:David Jones/PA Archive)
2014: Warsi vs Cameron's "Eton Mess" (04 of05)
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Baroness Warsi risked the Prime Minister's wrath after she backed complaints about the concentration of privately-educated people in his inner circle, brandishing a poster mocking "Eton Mess".
2014: Warsi vs Tory right-wingers (05 of05)
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Back in March, Warsi warned the Tories not to "out-Ukip Ukip" to win back disgruntled voters. Asked if she agreed with David Cameron's description of them as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists", she told HuffPost UK: "I don’t think I could have put it any better" (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive)
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