In the recent West Midlands mayoral election, independent candidate Akhmed Yakoob, campaigning on a pro-Palestine platform, secured 69,621 votes, about a fifth of the total. Yakoob plans to challenge Labour's Shabana Mahmood for the Birmingham Ladywood seat in the upcoming general election. Controversy arose when a Labour canvasser was allegedly heard using racially abusive language after finding out residents voted for Yakoob. However, investigations including an independent forensic analysis and police review, revealed the video was digitally manipulated, and the young teacher accused did not use the racial slur.
Criminal Defence Lawyer & West Midlands Mayor candidate @Akhmedyakoob1 got 69,621 votes. He highlighted a Labour Party canvasser who he alleged used the P-word, on hearing they weren't voting Labour. She was doxxed which Yakoob highlighted, with his 194k TikTok users & she was… https://t.co/V0IQCJqtGj
A teacher embroiled in a race row with a mayoral candidate did not use a highly offensive racist slur while canvassing for Labour, police say. https://t.co/s2vNoLkFI8
A young teacher campaigning for Labour in Dudley has been overwhelmed with abuse after fake subtitles were put over a viral video of her canvassing to suggest she had been racist. Police and an independent forensic analysis found she had not been.. https://t.co/qXeAQURGd9
The Labour Party has said that a video which appeared to show a Labour canvasser in the West Midlands using racially abusive language was digitally manipulated. An Asian colleague who was with the canvasser at the time has corroborated this version of events. https://t.co/kpRURPAop7
West Midlands Mayor candidate & criminal barrister @Akhmedyakoob1 describes two Labour canvassers out & about. One of them on learning they voted for Mr Yakoob refers to the occupants as f**king P-word, plural. Apparently they both teachers & have been doxxed. https://t.co/f0ik5mUR4k
Nb, there has been wide online circulation of a video alleging (wrongly) a racial slur on the doorstep. The Independent candidate Yakoob & others naming the teacher who was supporting a friend canvassing. See Birmingham Mail reporting. https://t.co/sDpdYnZNFJ
Independent candidate Ahmed Yakoob secured a fifth of the votes for Mayor cast in Birmingham, and plans to run for Westminster. What may seem surprising is that most of Yakoob's supporters also cast a vote for Labour on the same day. From my column https://t.co/EMyWM7wFqH https://t.co/n8gbVHJfDZ
"An independent campaigning on a platform critical of Labour’s stance on Gaza secured nearly 70,000 votes. Without his intervention, it is likely that Richard Parker would have won much more comfortably." ✍️Former Labour MP @RichardBurden27 writes 👇 https://t.co/jhZkLGIu8o
Independent candidate Akhmed Yakoob, standing on a pro Palestine platform, garnered an incredible 69,621 votes in the recent West Midlands mayoral election. Yakoob is now determined to defeat Shabana Mahmood in the Birmingham Ladywood parliamentary seat in the general election… https://t.co/AwqgXZ29bf
Labour has grown fat thinking it owns Muslim voters. Labour activists canvassing in the West Midlands were told by residents they’d already voted for independent @Akhmedyakoob1, only for their door camera to catch Labour activists using the racial insult “f*cking p*kis” on their… https://t.co/zmuK1b58p5
UK Labour has grown fat thinking it owns Muslim voters. Labour activists canvassing in the West Midlands were told by residents they’d already voted for independent @Akhmedyakoob1, only for their door camera to catch the activists using the racial insult “f*cking p*kis” on their…
Labour canvasser calling a voter a p*ki for not voting for Labour, and got caught on camera. This is Starmer's Labour Party people. https://t.co/xlFDPeUjdb