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Racism

Graham Stuart
News

Minister defends Tory donor accused of making racist comments about Diane Abbott

Basit Mahmood
12 March, 2024

Energy minister Graham Stuart said today that he would “hesitate” to describe Frank Hester’s comments as racist

Conservative Party rosette

Biggest Tory donor said that Diane Abbott ‘should be shot’

Chris Jarvis
11 March, 2024

He also said that seeing her on TV makes you “want to hate all black women”

Trade unions against hate, PCS union
News

The role of trade unions in fighting racism and the far right

Hannah Davenport
28 February, 2024

Trade unionists call on the movement to put fight against racism and fascism at ‘heart of our work’

Islamophobia Awareness Month
Opinion

Many of us warned for years about the scale of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party. The problem goes deeper than a few bad apples.

Basit Mahmood
26 February, 2024

The demand that we tackle Islamophobia isn’t a demand for special treatment for Muslims, it’s a demand for equal treatment.

Bame women
News

BME women 12 times more likely than men to be out of labour market due to caring commitments, TUC analysis shows

Basit Mahmood
23 October, 2023

Women from BME backgrounds in their thirties are the hardest hit, with 19% being forced out of the labour market due to being unpaid carers

Jill Mortimer
News

Tory MP slammed for playing up to racist stereotypes about asylums seekers

Basit Mahmood
19 October, 2023

“Incendiary and downright dangerous stuff – and possible contempt”

Braverman
News

Suella Braverman compared to Enoch Powell after claiming ‘hurricane’ of mass migration coming to UK

Basit Mahmood
4 October, 2023

“Suella Braverman with her reference to “hurricanes” coming is as divisive & dangerous as Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” rhetoric of the 1960s.”

Tom Hunt
News

Tory MP says it’s ‘not xenophobic’ to want town centres not to feel ‘foreign’

Basit Mahmood
3 October, 2023

Hunt was defending Suella Braverman

Right-Wing Watch

Making babies – the Right’s latest bright idea

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 September, 2023

Orbán-style birthrate populism with nasty racist undertones has arrived in Britain. How worried should we be?

Susan hall London mayoral candidate
News

Tory candidate for London mayor liked tweets which praised Enoch Powell and which sent Islamophobic abuse to Sadiq Khan

Basit Mahmood
15 September, 2023

In February 2020, Hall liked a tweet depicting Enoch Powell with the words “It’s never too late to get London back”.

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