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Muslim Vote campaign: ‘Our demands are in line with what ordinary people need’
After his organisation helped elect four independent MPs, ABUBAKR NANABAWA talks to Andrew Murray about how Muslim Vote, although sparked by the war on Gaza, has a working-class agenda that reaches far beyond Muslims

THE man who did more damage to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on July 4 than the socialist left aggregated is sipping hot chocolate in a cafe in Gloucester and pulling no punches.
“They don’t care about the anti-war movement, Muslims, the left, the working class.”
Abubakr Nanabawa is referring to the Labour Party. He is the director of Muslim Vote, the organisation which helped elect four independent MPs at the general election and powered the mass abandonment of Labour by Muslims on polling day.
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