(BBC) There are no plans to expand the definition of extremism, Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has said, following reports it could be broadened to cover potentially violent environmentalists and misogynists. He said Islamist extremism followed by far-right extremism were the biggest […]
(BBC) A minister has been spoken to for attending a Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) event, despite a government ban on engagement with the group. Labour’s leadership “reminded” Sir Stephen Timms of his “duty to uphold collective responsibility” after he attended an […]
(Sky News) Kemi Badenoch has defended blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. Speaking to Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, she insisted she would not be “shy” when talking about the scandal, which saw a […]
(Jewish News) An MP has been criticised after calling for the release of “hostages on both sides” in a question put to Keir Starmer on the Gaza conflict during PMQs. The independent MP Iqbal Mohamed asked a question relating to allegations about Israel and […]
(Politico) Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a fresh warning about the dangers of online radicalization, as he pointed out that the teenager who carried out July’s deadly Southport attack, Axel Rudakubana, watched violent online content before killing three young girls in a […]
(LBC) A 15-year-old boy has been charged with terror offences connected to extremist Islam. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of three counts of having a document or record of information likely to be useful to a […]
(BBC) Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans for a nationwide review of grooming gang evidence and five government-backed local inquiries. She stopped short of launching a statutory national inquiry, as called for by the Conservatives and some Labour MPs, but this […]
(GB News) Kemi Badenoch has said that “peasants” from “sub-communities” within some countries are behind the grooming gangs abuse that has scarred Britain. In an exclusive interview with GB News, the Tory leader reaffirmed her call for a public national inquiry into […]
(Middle East Eye) Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has claimed the Labour Party is influenced by “Islamism,” suggesting it is linked to a purported failure to tackle “grooming gangs.” She further accused Muslim independent MPs of being “Islamist MPs” and suggested […]
(LBC) Sebastian Gorka told LBC that he isn’t “telling the UK what to do,” but that any “serious ally of the US” should be committed to counter-terrorism to protect the so-called special relationship between the UK and US. The incoming counter-terrorism chief […]
(Reuters) A child sexual abuse scandal that revealed how gangs of mostly Pakistani men had groomed, trafficked and raped young white girls more than a decade ago has returned to the political agenda in Britain following criticism from Elon Musk. Musk, a […]
(Sky News) A total of 36,816 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK in 2024, provisional government figures show. The figure is up 25% on 2023 when 29,437 people arrived in small boats. The number successfully making the journey in 2024 […]
(GB News) Security sources have warned that up to 100 extremists and their children could enter Britain if jihadi bride Shamima Begum is allowed to return from Syria. Begum, who left London in 2015 to join Islamic State as a schoolgirl, previously […]
(Sky News) More than 150,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in small boats since 2018. The government began recording the number of people who have made the dangerous journey almost seven years ago, on 1 January […]
(BBC) A self-styled “keyboard warrior” and Hamas supporter who threatened Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with a knife emoji on social media has been jailed for a year. Mohammed Nafees Ahmed, 32, from Tipton, near Birmingham, had previously appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ […]
(Breitbart) The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that led the recent overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria has been tied to the terrorist beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty. Potentially undermining claims from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Mohammed al-Joulani that his organisation has […]
(Jewish News) Labour has been urged to investigate the conduct of the MP Kim Johnson after she promoted the activities of Islamist advocacy group CAGE on social media. Last weekend the firebrand MP also sparked further communal anger when she told a […]
(LBC) Sadiq Khan has vowed to give Donald Trump “the benefit of the doubt,” despite previous criticisms stretching back to the president-elect’s first term in the White House. The London mayor told LBC’s James O’Brien that he wanted to “put out the […]
(AFP) London Mayor Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of repeatedly criticising him because of his “ethnicity” and Muslim faith, in comments likely to renew his long-running feud with the US president-elect. The pair became embroiled in an extraordinary war of words […]
(Jewish News) Keir Starmer has criticised an MP elected on a pro-Gaza ticket for failing to reference either Hamas or the October 7 terror attack after he quizzed him in the Commons. During PMQs on Wednesday Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for […]
(National-UAE) Britain’s new national security adviser argued that the West should negotiate with ISIS extremists to bring peace to the Middle East. Jonathan Powell, who was former prime minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, was a leading player in bringing a peace […]
(AFP) A French court on Tuesday issued prison terms of up to 15 years to 18 people, mainly Iraqi Kurds, convicted of forming a vast gang to smuggle migrants aboard small boats across the Channel to England. The investigation found that this […]
(National-UAE) Labour’s support among Britain’s Muslims fell by nearly a third at this year’s general election over its stance on the war in Gaza, figures show. Despite Labour’s landslide victory, securing a 174-seat majority, four independent pro-Palestinian candidates had shock wins in […]
(BBC) More than 25,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year. A provisional total of 25,052 was reached as Home Office data confirmed 717 migrants arrived on Sunday. The figure is higher than that for the […]
(LBC) Terror suspects “waltz in on small boats,” Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has claimed. Dozens of terror suspects have crossed the Channel in small boats, according to the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick. The Tory leadership candidate said individuals associated with […]
(AFP) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on Monday for her efforts in reducing illegal migration, saying his “government of pragmatism” sought new approaches to the hot-button topic. On his first visit to Italy since his centre-left […]
(National-UAE) Two Muslim men have become the first rival protesters to be jailed for attacking far-right activists during the UK riots. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer warned on Friday that authorities must “stay on high alert” for more far-right riots over the […]
(Fox) U.K.-based Sky News cut off its live feed after a group of masked men shouting profanities and “Free Palestine” interrupted its live report. Sky News correspondent Becky Johnson was reporting on the unrest in Birmingham, England, where crowds of Muslim men […]
(Middle East Eye) The Labour Party is supporting the creation of a new Muslim leadership group intended to become the primary point of engagement between Keir Starmer’s government and Muslim communities in the UK, Middle East Eye can exclusively reveal. A draft […]
(ITV) Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been accused of giving “an awful response” when asked about the Labour Party’s relationship with British Muslims. In a recent interview, Starmer was questioned about general election results showing the declining support of Labour by British […]
(Jewish News) A former Liberal Democrat councillor, previously exposed by Jewish News for questioning the extent of crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, has been elected as an independent MP. Ayoub Khan took the Birmingham Perry [Barr] seat at last week’s […]
(Jewish News) A newly elected MP who dedicated his victory to “the people of Gaza” is the brother of the founder of the hardline Islamist group Friends of Al Aqsa, it can be revealed. Shockat Adam was the surprise winner in Leicester […]
(National-UAE) Pro-Palestinian candidates scored shock wins in the UK general election, as Britain’s new Labour government suffered a startling loss of support in heavily Muslim areas. Independent candidate Shockat Adam declared “this is for Gaza” as he unseated Labour front-bencher Jonathan Ashworth […]
(Reuters) Shanaz Saddique is one of a surge of pro-Palestinian candidates hoping to mobilise Muslim votes at Britain’s July 4 election by tapping into discontent over the two main political parties’ positions on the war in Gaza. Both the ruling Conservatives and […]
(Christian Science Monitor) Standing outside his home in a residential street in Slough, west of London, tire shop owner Raja Ijaz recounts a conversation he had recently with the local Labour Party candidate in Britain’s upcoming general election. When Tanmanjeet Dhesi came […]
(Jewish News) Keir Starmer has told Jewish News he understands the anger within the community after a man who terrorised staff at a Golders Green kosher supermarket whilst brandishing a large knife escaped a prison sentence. Speaking at an emotional meeting with […]
(AFP) Gaza is a long way from the picturesque foothills of the Yorkshire Dales but the issue could swing UK general election races in northern England, with many local Muslims angry at Labour’s stance. While Labour is expected to win a thumping […]
(Arab News) The Labour Party is increasing its campaigning in areas where it fears losing votes over its stance on the war in Gaza ahead of the upcoming UK general election on July 4. The party has identified 13 typically pro-Labour constituencies […]
(National-UAE) Rochdale, says its current MP George Galloway, will be remembered as the place where Britain’s Muslims saw that there was a new way of finding a political voice. His view, although bound with self-interest, was certainly borne out during the National’s […]
(Middle East Eye) Launched in December 2023, The Muslim Vote (TMV) is a campaign in the UK supporting parliamentary candidates for the upcoming election in constituencies with a significant Muslim electorate. Much of its driving force has been the early support from the […]
(National-UAE) Listening to the leader of the UK’s Labour party, Keir Starmer, talking about Gaza was the moment Sophia Naqvi realised it was time to quit the party after more than a decade as a member. In an interview that stretched Labour’s […]
(Sky News) The mother of a victim of the Manchester Arena bombing has walked from the venue to Downing Street to deliver a letter calling for new terror laws. Figen Murray’s son, Martyn Hett, was one of 22 people killed when terrorist […]
(ITV) Labour lost 33 percentage points of vote share in areas that are majority Muslim in the recent local elections, according to exclusive analysis for ITV News by Number Cruncher Politics. People across England and Wales went to the polls on May […]
(Jewish News) The four Board of Deputies presidential candidates have displayed differing approaches to answering potentially problematic questions at a hustings ahead of Sunday’s election. At a well-attended event at JFS school on Wednesday evening, hosted expertly by former British Ambassador to […]
(Arab News) Pro-Palestinian activists have presented a list of 18 demands to the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party and said they will not vote for the party at the next general election if he does not fulfill them. The Muslim Vote, […]
(National-UAE) Labour’s elation at thumping the Conservatives in the England and Wales local elections has been tempered by concern that it is losing key voter blocs, particularly in Muslim communities, over its stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict. Labour’s attempt to unseat the […]
(BBC) Labour has suspended a local election candidate and withdrawn its support due to anti-Israel posts he apparently shared on social media, it is understood. Abdur Razaq had been running for the party in the Preston with Preston Grange ward on North […]
(Middle East Eye) The UK’s Labour Party has cut ties with one of the UK’s most prominent Muslim organisations after the government’s communities secretary, Michael Gove, said the group would be investigated for extremism. On Monday, Labour told the Telegraph that it […]
(LBC) George Galloway has issued a warning shot to Sir Keir Starmer after he stormed to victory in yesterday’s by-election in Rochdale. The by-election was called after the death of Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd last month. Labour had initially expected a […]
(NY Times) Inside Britain’s Parliament, lawmakers jeered, booed, and stormed out of the House of Commons to protest the speaker’s handling of a vote calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Outside, a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators projected the slogan, “From the river […]
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