Can Labour fix its relationship with its Muslim voters before it's too late?

By Farah Hussain, PhD Researcher, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London

Labour leader Keir Starmer celebrated victory in the recent Batley and Spen by-election by declaring his party “is back”. He hailed Kim Leadbeater’s win as the beginning of Labour’s fight to win the next general election.

But the narrowness of the result has exposed festering doubts about the sustainability of Labour’s electoral coalition in many of the constituencies that it has long seen as strongholds. We know the party has been losing white…

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