(GB News) Britain should ban the burka in public because it poses a “huge impediment to assimilation,” Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf has claimed. Zia Yusuf was quizzed on his position at a fringe meeting at the NEC just four […]
(GB News) An illegal immigrant who taunted Britons on TikTok from a taxpayer-funded hotel room had fled Germany for the UK. It was revealed on Tuesday the man had garnered a million views by bragging about crossing the Channel on a dinghy. […]
(Sky News) More than 50,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since Sir Keir Starmer became prime minister, according to new figures. Home Office statistics reveal that 474 people arrived on Monday in eight vessels — the highest number to […]
(BBC) Lord Walney has called for more action to protect the public from “the menace of extreme protestors,” after his role as the government’s independent adviser on political violence was scrapped. Under the previous Conservative government, the crossbench peer recommended extra powers […]
(Jewish News) Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has suggested the anti-terror Prevent programme has been underestimating the threat posed by Islamist extremism. Dan Jarvis told the Commons that Islamist referrals into [the] Prevent programme increased by 17 per cent last year. But […]
(Sky News) Nigel Farage has argued on Sky News that a “growing number” of young Muslims in the UK do not subscribe to British values. The Reform UK honorary president told Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “We have a growing […]
(National Post) A global network of Muslim thought leaders convened in Toronto on Sunday afternoon to discuss ways to combat antisemitism coming from within their community. Over 400 people packed into a midtown venue to hear speakers assembled by the non-profit Council […]
(National-UAE) Britain’s Labour Party has shed support among Muslim voters as the Israel-Gaza war shapes their political thinking in an election year, according to new polling. Historically a solidly Labour voter base, just 43 per cent of Muslims now say they would […]
(Breitbart) Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has argued that the anti-Israel “hate marches” in London have demonstrated the need to reduce mass migration and that multiculturalism has been a “failure.” While the Metropolitan Police are once again searching for pro-Palestinian protesters […]
(Sky News) The “turmoil” at the top of the Tories has led to “slow” progress in tackling Islamophobia within the party, an independent reviewer has said. Boris Johnson launched an inquiry into discrimination within its ranks after the last election in 2019. […]
(Arab News) UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has reportedly lost the backing of staunch ally Steve Baker over her position on child sexual abuse and grooming gangs. Baker, a prominent figure on the right wing of the UK Conservative Party and current […]
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(AFP) France and Britain are working on a new deal to thwart migrants crossing the Channel, which could be agreed at a summit between leaders Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak later this week, a French official said Wednesday. Macron is set to […]
(Middle East Eye) The mother of Jack Letts, a British-Canadian man held among suspected Islamic State group (IS) fighters in prison in northeast Syria, has hailed Canada’s decision to repatriate him along with 22 other of its citizens. Speaking to Middle East Eye, Sally […]
(AFP) If the UK government has its way, the tens of thousands of migrants arriving on England’s southeastern shores each year, after crossing the Channel in small boats, will face swift deportation to Rwanda. Although the controversial plan is on hold amid […]
(BBC) The government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has ruled. The court ruled on Monday that the scheme did not breach the UN’s Refugee Convention or human rights laws. But the cases of eight asylum seekers […]
(AFP) From the white cliffs above Dover, on England’s south coast, it’s possible to watch as migrants who have attempted to cross from northern France in small boats are brought ashore. On Monday, 426 were intercepted, according to government figures. On Tuesday, […]
(AFP) Britain agreed to pay France another 72.2 million euros ($74.5 million) to prevent migrant boat crossings in the English Channel under a new deal signed on Monday that underlines improving ties between the neighbours. Around 42,000 people — most of them […]
(AFP) The foreign ministers of Britain and France on Friday said significant progress was being made on an ambitious new deal to thwart illegal migration on small boats across the Channel. “They welcomed progress made towards a significant new UK-France agreement and […]
(Arab News) Three years since promising to establish a working definition of Islamophobia, the UK government will be questioned on the issue in parliament on Tuesday amid a growing backlash for its inaction. Home Office statistics show Muslims are the most targeted […]
(BBC) The UK and France have pledged to boost co-operation to tackle migrant crossings in the English Channel, Downing Street has said. Rishi Sunak held his first call, since becoming prime minister, with President Emmanuel Macron on Friday. No 10 said the […]
(Jewish News) The Metropolitan Police have dropped their investigation into [an] antisemitic attack directed at Jewish passengers as they celebrated Chanukah on a bus in central London. In a statement to Jewish News, the Met confirmed their probe into the incident, footage […]
(AFP) New UK interior minister Suella Braverman is admired by the right for her attacks on “woke” politics but her legal acumen will be put to the test when tackling one of government’s toughest jobs. Braverman, 42, was appointed attorney general a […]
(AP) Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in […]
(Anadolu) The UK leadership candidates must address Islamophobia within the Conservative Party, according to the head of the country’s largest and most diverse Muslim umbrella organization. That has triggered demands that the next prime minister takes Islamophobia within the Tory party seriously […]
(Sky News) Liz Truss has said she would “support and extend” the government’s controversial Rwanda deportation policy “to more countries.” The widely criticised strategy, introduced by the current Conservative government, has been the subject of numerous court cases and received widespread international […]
(Arab News) Conservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has pledged to tackle the issue of Islamist ideology in British prisons by ensuring prisoners on terror charges are kept separate from other inmates. The former chancellor, whose resignation last month sparked the downfall of […]
(BBC) Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have vowed to toughen controls on migration into the UK as part of their bids to become next Tory leader and prime minister. Mr Sunak said he would tighten the definition of who qualifies for asylum […]
(National-UAE) Downing Street has stated that ministers should continue to boycott the Muslim Council of Britain following controversy over a meeting with one of its leaders by Conservative leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt in defiance of the long-standing policy. The trade minister has […]
(Anadolu) The new British prime minister must treat “systemic” Islamophobia in the ruling Conservative Party seriously, according to the head of the UK’s leading Muslim organization. As the party searches for outgoing premier Boris Johnson’s successor, whoever wins “must represent everybody and […]
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(AFP) French police are holding 10 people suspected of involvement in the November 2021 Channel drowning of migrants in which 27 people died, a judicial source said Thursday. One has been charged with manslaughter and people-trafficking, and the nine others were to […]
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(BBC) The government’s flagship counter-extremism Prevent strategy is failing to engage with Muslim communities, a government adviser has said. Dame Sara Khan said a “vacuum” of information about its purpose had been left by the government, which was then being filled by […]
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(BBC) About 20,000 participants in the Great Manchester Run held a minute’s applause for the victims of the Manchester Arena attack on its fifth anniversary. Twenty-two people died when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert on 22 […]
(AFP) The first batch of asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from the UK under a controversial new deal will likely arrive in the East African nation “in the next few weeks,” officials in Kigali said Thursday. Since being announced last month, the […]
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(BBC) Villagers have branded a planned asylum centre on an ex-RAF station site an “open prison in the middle of nowhere.” The Home Office wants to place up to 1,500 male asylum seekers at Linton-on-Ouse near York. Residents have flooded the prime […]
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