Muslim Conservative is victim of David Cameron's 'bullying" friend Lord Feldman In his short letter, sent on March 14, the peer said the party's board, of which he is chairman, had carried out a review of affiliated groups. It had decided to refuse to allow the Conservative Arab Network (CAN) formal status because of unspecified "concerns." Dr Moustafa wrote back to point out that he had been a member of the Conservative Party for more than 23 years and had donated more than £100,000 over this period. "The number of prominent members of the party, including Cabinet ministers and Arab ambassadors that have attended CAN functions attests to our effectiveness and popularity over the last four years," he said. You will be aware that CAN, unlike other bodies associated with the Middle East, has never been tainted with scandal or sought to solicit funds from dubious potential donors here or abroad by way of hidden subsidy or other subterfuge. Dr Moustafa, who stood for the Tories in the safe Labour seat of Bootle, Merseyside, at the 2005 general election, says Feldman's letter is the culmination of a "bullying" campaign against the network. "I am absolutely disappointed, uncomfortable about it," he tells me. There is a smack of unfairness. We have been bullied for about two years. Daniel Kawczynski, a loyal Tory MP, resigned as the network's parliamentary chairman last September. He said he would establish a cross-party group, called the British Mena Council, with Mena being an acronym for British Middle East and North Africa.