Topic: Elections

Relationship between Labour and Muslims ‘at breaking point’ — internal survey

Labour Muslim Network surveyed hundreds of MPs, councillors and mayors and found most were highly critical of party’s handling of Islamophobia and Gaza

Lucas Cumiskey
Reform’s election surge has left some Labour MPs desperate to push rightwards

Reform UK victories in Runcorn and Lincolnshire have given Labour and the Tories a huge headache

Shehab Khan
Will Farage’s fighting talk translate into election success?

Buoyed by support from the Sun, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is eyeing hundreds of local council seats in next month’s polls

Shehab Khan

How German Muslims voted in the federal elections and why

Concerns about the economy and anti-immigrant discrimination brought Germany’s Muslim minority out in force for left and centre left parties

Jessica Bateman
A workforce timebomb despite rising numbers — Labour’s migration conundrum

Asylum claims have hit a 46-year high, but health and higher education are suffering as successive governments try to cut UK immigration figures

Shehab Khan
Labour MPs warn that Starmer’s government won’t outflank Reform UK by getting tougher on immigration

Both Labour and the Conservative opposition are increasingly aware of the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s party

Shehab Khan
I went to a Reform UK rally. Here’s what I saw

Rupert Lowe and Lee Anderson railed against DEI and asylum seekers, while Nigel Farage tried to tone things down

Shehab Khan
Muslim Council of Britain elects Mohammed Wajid Akhter as secretary general

Akhter, a doctor from Essex, had run on a platform of modernising the MCB and beat Dr Muhammad Adrees to succeed Zara Mohammed

Saman Javed
Muslim Council of Britain leadership candidates quizzed at first hustings event

Candidates for leader and deputy leader of the MCB hope to win voters over with pledges to engage young people and mend relations with the government

Saman Javed