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Sadiq Khan targeted with death threats in police 999 calls after Lee Anderson's 'Islamists' rant

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Massey, 52, from Ipswich, made threats aimed at the Mayor in two 999 phone calls to Suffolk Police’s control room

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UK politics: ex-minister apologises for saying there are ‘no-go areas’ in UK cities – as it happened

Paul Scully says he is ‘slightly furious’ with himself after comments about London and Birmingham

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Paul Scully 'regrets' storm after claiming parts of Tower Hamlets and Birmingham are 'no-go areas'

Former mayoral candidate says he was ‘misconstrued’ in interview after he also condemned Lee Anderson

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Lee Anderson says he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK

Tory suspended over comments about Sadiq Khan would be populist party’s first MP if he joined

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Tuesday briefing: Behind the Conservative party’s failure to address Islamophobia

In today’s newsletter: As suspended backbencher Lee Anderson launches a fresh attack, a former Tory MEP explains how the party got here

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Tory MP Paul Scully claims there are ‘no-go’ areas in Birmingham and London

Ex-London minister’s comment about areas with large Muslim populations – for which he apologised – described as ‘utter drivel’

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Rishi Sunak in growing storm after failing to condemn Lee Anderson rant as Islamophobic

Prime Minister criticised for not taking a tougher line against Mr Anderson and ‘calling this out for what it is’

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Tory supporters lash out at ‘snake’ Sunak over Lee Anderson suspension

Exclusive: activists endorse Anderson’s comments and decry ‘threat of Islam’ in leaked messages

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Were two Muslim women in east London run over because they were wearing hijabs?

Misbah Sadique and her friend Kulsum were hit by a car they say was accelerating at them but police did not regard incident as a potential hate crime despite rising Islamophobia

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Nothing to see here, say Tories of their hero, 30p Lee

Even Rish! has tied himself in knots trying to work out what Anderson should apologise for. Because Lee’s not racist or Islamophobic, is he?

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The Guardian view on Islamophobia and the Tories: the problem is bigger than Lee Anderson

Editorial: The remarks from the senior Conservative are symptomatic of the party’s longstanding failure to tackle the issue

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Is Sadiq Khan a good mayor of London? Let’s not pretend the far right cares

From Trump and his supporters to the ‘meatheads’ on GB News, Khan has been under attack ever since he was elected in 2016. Facts don’t come into it, writes Zoe Williams

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‘He’s very controversial, isn’t he?’: how Lee Anderson’s constituents reacted to his comments about Sadiq Khan

In Kirkby-in Ashfield, some call their MP an ‘embarrassment’ while others say ‘he’s telling the truth a lot of people daren’t say’

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Lee Anderson stands by attack on Sadiq Khan and launches fresh broadside

Former Tory deputy chair says ‘when you think you are right, you should never apologise’ because it would be a sign of weakness

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Sunak, his media allies – maybe even Lee Anderson – know Sadiq Khan is no Islamist. This is tactical racism

The label ‘Islamist’ is being used to stir up anti-Muslim feeling for political ends, says Archie Bland, Guardian First Edition newsletter editor

Evening Standard

OPINION - Lee Anderson has poured petrol on the fires of hatred and Rishi Sunak should condemn his racist remarks

More than two days on from Lee Anderson’s vile racist, anti-Muslim and Islamophobic remarks, we have yet to hear the Prime Minister call it what it is: Islamophobic, anti-Muslim hate and racist. Remarkably, Rishi Sunak released a statement yesterday on hatred in politics, but failed to mention anti-Muslim sentiment at…

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OPINION - The Standard View: Lee Anderson's comments were Islamophobic and must be condemned by all

By suggesting that Islamists had “got control of [Sadiq] Khan” and “control of London”, former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson was speaking in patently Islamophobic terms. The Mayor is a Muslim, as are approximately 1.3 million Londoners. To remark that leaves Khan in the pocket of Islamists is racist.

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Don't let hate win: Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall make unity plea amid Lee Anderson 'Islamophobia' storm

London mayoral rivals join forces to condemn antisemitism and Islamophobia

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The anti-Muslim rhetoric of rightwing politicians is fuelling hate crime – I’ve experienced it myself

Words wield immense power, and public figures such as Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson are using them cleverly to whip up their audience, says journalist Tasnim Nazeer

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Sunak says no Islamophobia issues in Tory party despite Anderson remarks

PM says prejudice unacceptable but refuses to address anti-Muslim concerns after comments about London mayor

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SNP says Speaker has ‘broken his word’ by not allowing emergency debate on Gaza – as it happened

Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he will not allow further emergency debate, saying that MPs came to a resolution on Gaza only last week

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Rishi Sunak forced to deny Tory party has 'Islamophobic tendencies' as Lee Anderson storm grows

Row over Lee Anderson’s rant about Sadiq Khan intensifies after Cabinet members refuse to call the Ashfield MP out for racism or Islamophobia

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: Charting the forgotten crisis in Sudan

In today’s newsletter: With tens of thousands dead, millions displaced and no sign of the war abating, a ‘deafening silence of global indifference’ threatens the country’s future

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Labour and the Tories are on political paths with a degree of difference

Brief letters: Labour v Conservatives | Getting a ceasefire in Gaza | Flagging distress | Tory MPs | First cuckoo of spring

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Lee Anderson: from Labour councillor to Labour wind-up merchant

For the Tories he was a useful counterpart to the party’s pinstripes and privilege brigade, but then he went too far. Or did he?

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