Topic: Political parties

Streeting’s Reform attack signals a change in Labour — with or without Starmer

As Nigel Farage’s party continues to gain ground, the health secretary has won unusual praise for his strong words about Sarah Pochin

Shehab Khan
Rachel Reeves’ next move could make or break the government

Labour MPs admit the forthcoming autumn budget ‘won’t go down well’. But choosing the winners and losers is in the chancellor’s hands

Shehab Khan
Peer urges ministers to adopt working group’s Islamophobia definition in full

Shaista Gohir, part of the five-strong group, says attacks on members and their work are intended to scare government into stalling

Lucas Cumiskey

Can the Greens and Your Party take Labour’s remaining Muslim vote?

With Green membership surging under Polanski, and Corbyn and Sultana seemingly having buried the hatchet, hesitant Labour backers have new choices
Tory MPs are split: is the party too close to Reform?

Conservatives under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership are itchy as a modest conference and disastrous polling highlight just how far the party has fallen
‘I don’t know them — they just come’: strangers unite to defend town’s mosque

Plans to build an Islamic centre in Dalton-in-Furness have attracted the ire of Ukip leader Nick Tenconi. But neighbours are having none of it
Mosque arson cost Peacehaven Muslim community its ‘safe haven’, says manager

Police are appealing for information about the attack on a mosque in East Sussex, which saw the entrance set alight after arsonists failed to get in
Sacked faith minister: government must tackle hate against Muslims

Wajid Khan said Britain needed to celebrate the contributions of migrants and warned against scrapping anti-Islamophobia work
Labour is openly fighting Reform on two fronts. Will it work?

Shabana Mahmood’s speech to this year’s Labour conference revealed a tension in the party’s approach to Nigel Farage