Overview

• Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner convened an independent group to advise on terminology and a possible official definition addressing anti-Muslim discrimination.
• GB News reports the process has been postponed after officials received thousands of critical submissions from campaigners.
• Fiyaz Mughal has launched the Keep the Law Equal campaign and warns the proposal risks a chilling effect on speech and potential social unrest.
• Critics link the risks to fraught debates on grooming gangs, sharia courts and the niqab, with tensions sharpened by Baroness Casey’s findings on authorities avoiding offender ethnicity.
• Ministers insist any recommendation must uphold free expression, as a Labour councillor frames the effort as educational and notes support from groups including the Muslim Council of Britain and the Islamophobia Response Unit.