Is Sheikh the man to lecture us on respect?

To his tory supporters — largely embittered Remainers — Lord sheikh, who called for Boris Johnson to be expelled from the party in the row over the burka, is the epitome of respectability.

sheikh, 77, the founder and president of the Conservative Muslim Forum, is a staunch advocate of the importance of the family.

in an interview to mark his elevation to the Lords in 2006, he said: ‘i joined the Conservative Party as its policies and ideologies match our own [Muslim] traditions that are based on strong work ethics and family values.’

in June 2010, sheikh praised his wife shaida: ‘My wife and i are wheels of a cycle. she sometimes types my speeches up to two o’clock at night. My wife makes delicious meatballs curry. i believe in empowerment of women.’

so it was a rum do when, just a few years later, sheikh dumped his wife of 25 years for a waitress, Guli Muradova, whom he met in a cafe in London where she was working. Born in Uzbekistan, she was 45 years his junior.

When shaida discovered her husband’s affair in 2012, she confronted Ms Muradova at her workplace, and Ms Muradova later returned to her family home.

A lovelorn Lord sheikh soon followed to ask her father — a good few years younger than himself — for Guli’s hand in marriage. he later denied offering a kilo of gold worth £30,000 as a dowry.

in 2015, Lord sheikh divorced shaida and married Ms Muradova (who now describes herself as a ‘designer, artist, painter, calligrapher, actor, comic screen writer and poet’ on her website).

he’s just the man to deliver lectures to Boris Johnson on respect for Muslim women, isn’t he!