After the discovery of Mr Purkis’s comments, the teacher’s lawyer, Pavel Stroilov, made an application for refusal, alleging there was “a possibility of bias”. He said that in the social ...

by saying 'a tumour of Tories' and a 'cess pit of Tories'. Pavel Stroilov, for the teacher, said Mr Purkis 'appears to agree with a view which expressly advocates for religious discrimination in ...