Galloway denies being Muslim convert

He took part in the conversion ceremony, attended by members of the Muslim Association of Great Britain, at a hotel in Kilburn, London, it was reported. Jemima Khan, who converted to Islam ahead of her failed marriage to cricketer Imran Khan, claimed in an article for the New Statesman she knew someone who had attended the event.

But the Bradford West MP, who has repeatedly refused to answer questions about his faith, dismissed it as “totally untrue”.

Ahead of his by-election victory last month, a letter – which Mr Galloway denies being behind – went out to voters. Part of it said: “God knows who is a Muslim. And He knows who is not. Instinctively so do you.”

Yesterday Mr Galloway said the article was littered with “falsehoods” and added: “I have never attended any such ceremony in Kilburn, Karachi or Kathmandu.”