Topic: Political parties

UK hopes diplomacy can de-escalate Middle East crisis — but it needs Europe’s help

Beyond evacuating its own citizens, and with little appetite to halt arms sales, Britain’s power to calm tensions between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran is limited

Shehab Khan
Speaking out on racism, multiculturalism and Gaza — the Hyphen guide to Sayeeda Warsi

Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim woman in cabinet, has now resigned the Tory whip. Here are the moments that have defined her career so far

Saman Javed
Muslim Labour members tell conference that party must do more to fix relationship with the community

Britain’s faith minister Wajid Khan vowed to root out Islamophobia, but figures in Labour Muslim Network raised string of failures

Saman Javed

Starmer looks to Italy for a migration solution — but the answer lies closer to home

Following Giorgia Meloni’s lead on dealing with migration will only result in more people dying. There is a far more humane answer
Labour is learning the hard way that governing is nothing like being in opposition

Keir Starmer’s attempts to sweep away dissent over winter fuel payments, high-value donations and Gaza haven’t worked
Eating less and washing in cold water: what it means to lose the winter fuel payment

Rachel Reeves has cut cold weather benefits for 10 million pensioners. But schemes to help those who lose it may not touch the sides
Pro-Palestine heckler at Labour conference ‘still in shock’ at force used against him

Man, 24, interrupted chancellor Rachel Reeves’s speech to challenge her on Britain’s sale of arms to Israel before being dragged outside
Streeting’s NHS reforms could leave Black and Asian people behind again, researchers warn

Key 133-page report on state of NHS contained just three paragraphs on ethnic disparities that see minority groups dying younger and waiting longer for treatment
Even some Labour MPs say Starmer’s free glasses aren’t a good look

Prime minister’s gifts from Waheed Alli are causing disquiet among a party that prided itself on being different from the Tories