Basit Mahmood
Government continues to bury its head in the sand over Islamophobia
Kemi Badenoch refused to even use the word Islamophobia in her answers
Tory MPs suggest Priti Patel changes law so Russia’s “enablers” in House of Lords can be stripped of their peerages
Questions continue to be raised over Johnson's role in pushing for a peerage for Evgeny Lebedev.
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Tory minister defends UK offering just 50 visas to Ukrainian refugees during car crash interview
The UK's response has been slammed as 'inhumane'
EU issues 30 times more sanctions than UK since Russia invaded Ukraine
Analysis by Bloomberg shows that while the EU has sanctioned 490 Russian entities since the country first invaded Ukraine, the UK has just sanctioned 16.
Conservative party co-chair Ben Elliot deletes company webpage boasting about Russia ‘elite’ connections
The Labour Party has also written to Johnson, demanding that he sack Elliot as co-chair, after he secured nearly £2 million of Russia-linked donations for the party