The Latest Breaking News from Sunder Katwala

Britons of all ethnicities feel racial inequality is worsening, study shows

Nearly half of minority ethnic respondents in a poll say they have faced prejudice over the past year

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15

UK voters urge Burnham to change post-Brexit relationship with EU

New research shows just one in five voters think Brexit has been a success, heaping pressure on the new prime minister to improve Britain’s relationship with Europe

The Independent UK · Sep 8

Hard work or humour? Take the British values quiz

Poll finds consensus on what makes people proud to be British but deep divisions on issues such as immigration

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11

Forget Jim Ratcliffe’s half-apology: to speak of immigrants ‘colonising’ Britain crosses a line and he must fix that

He fused an echo of Enoch Powell with the spirit of the far right’s great replacement theory. This is no way to progress a humane migration debate, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13

Are asylum seekers really more likely to commit violent crime in the UK?

As claims spread suggesting men from certain backgrounds have a propensity to commit certain crimes, here’s why the statistics fail to provide the full picture

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2025

Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer

Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2025

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the UK

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2025

Farage aims for hardline vibes with his mass deportation plan

Reform UK leader cuts loose with far-right anti-immigration rhetoric, but still finds little pushback from Labour or Tories

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2025

‘A dangerous moment’: the emboldening of Britain’s far right

In a summer of anti-migrant rallies, flags and nationalistic rhetoric, observers warn there is a lack of government voices pushing back

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2025

Voices: Nobody understands what ‘global majority’ means – so let’s not use it

COMMENT: As a survey of ethnic minority Britons finds that the term, popular in progressive and academic circles, is used by just 7 per cent of the people it is meant to include, Sunder Katwala says it erases unique cultural heritage – and that foisting it upon people is a…

The Independent UK · May 30, 2025