Topic: Political parties

Behind the warm words, Labour will worry about a Trump presidency

Keir Starmer faces a struggle to mend his party’s relationship with the president-elect without alienating his base

Shehab Khan
Islamophobia, Israel, Gaza and ‘culture wars’: Hyphen’s guide to Kemi Badenoch

The new Conservative leader wants to “renew” the Tories. What does that mean for British Muslims?

Weronika Strzyżyńska
Black Muslims in Philadelphia are crucial for Kamala Harris. Has she won them over?

This historically Democratic city is a key battleground in Pennsylvania. But Gaza isn’t the only issue causing the vice-president problems

Denise Clay

Rachel Reeves’s first budget was historic — but the debate is eerily familiar

Labour’s first budget in nearly 15 years contained few surprises thanks to some judicious leaks. But who will win the spin war?

Shehab Khan
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 and 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

Taj Ali
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

Weronika Strzyżyńska