'Why do you think you should dress this way?' This Morning burkini debate gets personal as James Whale grills Cherie Blair's Muslim convert sister Lauren over wearing a hijab

Lauren Booth appeared on today's This Morning to speak out against France's controversial ban of burkini on its beaches and explain why she has chosen to embrace wearing religious clothing. 

The sister of former Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie, who converted to Islam in 2010 following the breakdown of her first marriage, said wearing a burkini or burka is a 'personal choice' and women shouldn't all be forced to dress the same. 

Wearing a bright pink headscarf on the ITV show, Lauren, 49, told presenters James Martin and Anita Rani: 'We don't have to feel the same and dress the same to get along. There is beauty in diversity.' 

 

In response to the incident this week when a woman wearing a burkini was ordered to take it off by police on a beach in Nice, the mother-of-two said: 'To be humiliated and clapped off a beach for being Muslim, that's very frightening.'

However, she said she didn't fear that such scenes could happen in this country as 'we are not that panicked about other people's choices in Britain.'