Topic: Political parties

Why isn’t America talking about Trump’s planned Muslim ban 2.0?

In 2017, the 45th president outraged the world by blocking immigration to the US from several Muslim-majority countries. Now he wants to impose even harsher sanctions

Kourosh Ziabari
Starmer is being tested by Trump’s charge of ‘foreign interference’

While the result of the US election hangs in the balance, so could the country's ‘special relationship’ with the UK

Shehab Khan
Live facial recognition used by Met police is ineffective, says monitoring group

Keir Starmer has promised a wider deployment of facial recognition technology, but critics have raised concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding the surveillance

Anita Mureithi
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Husna Rizvi

Labour has a chance to turn Britain around with its first budget. Here’s how

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to slash billions from welfare and public spending on 30 October. But there is another way
What a year of war in Gaza means for the US election

For Muslim voters in America, Palestine is on the ballot. That could have some unexpected consequences
Starmer’s P&O headache is over — but there are choppy seas ahead

Labour is backing both workers’ rights and big business. Are they on a collision course?
‘I was an optometrist. Now I’m an MP. I had to sink or swim’

One hundred days into the job, parliament’s new independent members are getting to grips with the dress code and their fellow MPs. But can they make a difference?
‘The right isn’t the same as the far right’: what Muslim Tories think about leadership race

We asked Muslim Conservative members at the annual party conference how they felt about Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly
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