Topic: Political parties

Labour sides with Tories in court over anti-protest laws

Home secretary Yvette Cooper to continue Conservatives’ challenge to High Court ruling that backed Liberty

Anita Mureithi
‘I can count the Muslim members on my hands’ — Muslim Tories on the state of the party

We asked a peer, a Senedd member and a councillor who should replace Rishi Sunak and whether the Conservatives could beat Islamophobia

Samir Jeraj
On the economy, Starmer has boxed himself in. That isn’t (just) the Tories’ fault

The prime minister is warning of hard times to come, but he can’t blame everything on his predecessors

Shehab Khan

UK government quietly suspends key scholarship for Afghan students

Former Tory MP Rory Stewart among critics of “devastating” decision to freeze “hugely important” Chevening programme
Sheeraz Gulsher Q&A: ‘Tackling the ethnicity pay gap is the first step to making work fair for all’

The co-founder of People Like Us on workplace inequalities and Labour’s plans to introduce mandatory reporting of companies’ pay data
By sticking to the Tory line on immigration, Labour could be walking into a trap

Yvette Cooper has pledged to “remove” more people from the UK than the Tories. It’s a risky strategy
The far right’s two-tier policing myth is racial gaslighting

It is clear that identity can affect a person's experience of law enforcement but it is people of colour who are at the sharp end of double standards
Why jailing extremists ‘won’t be enough’ to defeat a resurgent far right

Keir Starmer has promised swift justice for rioters after racist violence swept Britain. Here’s what he should do, according to veteran activists and extremism experts
Inside the far-right disinformation networks that fuelled the UK riots

Unchecked social media platforms provide the perfect environment for Islamophobic anti-immigrant groups to organise and recruit