Topic: Political parties

Tessa Khan Q&A: ‘The UK has a responsibility to lead the fight against climate change’

The international climate change lawyer and founder of Uplift on the future of proposed fossil fuel projects, and how ordinary people can hold power to account

Anita Mureithi
Tory leadership race is hugely important for British Muslims — in more ways than one

Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick’s camps have doubled down on statements seen as Islamophobic. That has an impact beyond the Conservative party

Shehab Khan
Far right eyes Austrian electoral success after historic win in Germany

Following AfD victory in east Germany, Austria’s Freedom Party — which proposes to ban political Islam — is polling at 30% ahead of general election

Jessica Bateman

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

Mariam Amini
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

Anita Mureithi
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

Shehab Khan