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

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…

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.

London mayoral rivals join forces to condemn antisemitism and Islamophobia

Washington hopes more countries will join coalition to label and counter disinformation operations. Plus, air force serviceman sets himself alight outside Israeli embassy in DC

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

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

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

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

"He's extremely hard-working and driven, and always has been," royal photographer Arthur Edwards said.

Ministers say smaller towns and cities in north of England and Midlands to benefit from scrapping of Leeds and Manchester lines