Topic: Political parties

Marieha Hussain: protester goes on trial for placard calling Sunak and Braverman ‘coconuts’

Police sought advice over sign at pro-Palestine protest and were told it was not racist — but charged woman anyway

Anita Mureithi
We’ve not heard the last of Labour’s anti-austerity rebels

Dozens of Keir Starmer’s MPs abstained on a vote to scrap winter fuel payments for pensioners, exposing a rift in the party

Shehab Khan
Ayoub Khan MP: Kemi Badenoch’s comments about ‘Islamist politics’ are dangerous and ignorant

Conservative leadership hopeful claimed independent MPs were elected thanks to ‘sectarian’ politics and ‘alien ideas’

Ayoub Khan

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
Three quarters of social housing blocks with unsafe cladding yet to be fixed

Slow progress since Grenfell fire disproportionately affects Muslims, who are more likely to live in social housing

Anita Mureithi
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