Section: Politics

Labour leader promises to ‘smash the gangs’ to tackle small boat crossings

Keir Starmer said he will scrap the government’s Rwanda scheme and establish a new Border Security Command if he wins power

Reuters
Humza Yousaf resigns as first minister of Scotland

SNP leader’s decision to step down follows the collapse of coalition agreement with Scottish Greens

Reuters
Voter rights groups issue warning over photo ID laws ahead of local elections

Pro-democracy organisations say citizens from ethnic minority communities, including Muslims, could be turned away from ballot stations on 2 May

Samir Jeraj

‘My conscience would not allow me to carry on’: local councillors on why they left Labour

Dozens have resigned since October, citing the party’s stance on Gaza and a toxic culture under Keir Starmer. Five of those who quit tell us why
Community groups remind the world about Sudan’s forgotten war

Overshadowed by other international conflicts, an ongoing humanitarian disaster has been widely neglected by western governments and media outlets
Tax hikes and poor public services — the UK’s economic future looks bleak

Experts warn of anaemic growth and funding gaps to services. Yet neither Labour nor the Conservatives are willing to be honest about raising taxes
The German far right wants to ‘return’ migrants

Millions of Muslim migrants living in Germany have been thrown into anxious uncertainty by a proposal to ‘remigrate’ people who have failed to integrate
Pakistan’s crackdown on Imran Khan’s party reaches Britain

As the country’s powerful military intensifies its campaign to dismantle PTI, British Pakistanis share how they have been affected
A new Muslim political coalition is running for power in Europe

Campaigning for a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and advocating multiculturalism, the new pan-Europe Muslim alliance hopes to see its members elected in the European parliamentary elections in June