He was a violent Christian first - Baroness

difficult (to predict).

“This is a man who was born in a Christian home, born in a fairly comfortable home, seemed to be living a fairly good lifestyle, was popular.

“He then got involved in criminality and didn’t convert to Islam until later on in life.

“So he was a violent Christian long before he was a violent Muslim.

“I’m not sure any of the people who were growing up with him, indeed his own family, would have known that he would go on to commit such an extremist act.”

Marr asked Baroness Warsi why it seemed violent drug taking men converted to Islam.

“They don’t convert to evangelical Christianity or Hinduism, they choose Islam,” he claimed.

But Baroness Warsi said there were people around the world who were evangelical Christians who committed and Buddhists, extremist acts.

“People always want to find a cause,” she said.

“Nobody’s going to say ‘I am an extremist or a terrorist, I just want to commit violent acts, because that’s the kind of violent man I am’, which clearly Khalid Masood was.

“They want to try and find an air of respectability as justification for it.

“If you go back to the GBH he was convicted of in early life there’s some suggestion that the argument he presented to court was that he had been racially abused.

“His violent act was based upon his racial identity.

“People will always find a grievance.”