Angela Rayner’s resignation as Deputy Prime Minister and Communities Secretary marks the end of a disappointing tenure. While MEND recognises Ms Rayner’s advocacy around issues of poverty, her record includes serious shortcomings in relation specifically to Muslim communities. Following the...
While MEND cautiously welcomes the UK Government’s move to recognise the State of Palestine, we note with concern that, in his announcement of the decision, Prime Minister Starmer stated that recognition will happen unless the Israeli Government takes “substantive steps to end the appalling...
MEND welcomes the government’s recognition of the rise in Islamophobia and the urgent need for action. Islamophobia is becoming increasingly normalised across politics, media and online spaces. The appointment of the British Muslim Trust to lead a new initiative tackling Islamophobia comes at a...
On 7 July 2005, four coordinated suicide bombings struck London’s transport system killing 52 people and injuring over 770 more. It was the deadliest terror attack in the UK since Lockerbie in 1988. A decade earlier, the world witnessed the largest massacre in Europe since the Second World War,...
Dear Foreign Secretary, We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to you with grave concern about the UK government’s continued arms exports to Israel amid escalating atrocities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. We acknowledge and welcome the UK’s decision to suspend new free trade...
Mend welcomes the UK government’s decision to suspend trade negotiations with Israel and impose long overdue sanctions on some Israeli settlers as a step in the right direction in light of the worsening humanitarian disaster in Gaza. However, we assert, unequivocally, that this move falls far...
This month’s local elections heralded a realignment in British politics, with the far-right Reform UK making significant gains at the expense of the traditional mainstream parties. Reform, led by Nigel Farage, won 677 council seats out of 1,641 – that’s 41% of seats that were being...
This article was originally published in Byline Times on 24 April 2025. As Britain approaches the 1 May local council elections, it faces the alarming rise of a far-right political force. Reform UK, a party that has its roots in anti-EU sentiment and is steeped in Islamophobia and...
