Sayeeda Warsi Articles

An angry response to what seemed to me to be a well-intentioned, albeit somewhat clumsy, government letter to mosques was blamed over the weekend on a failure to engage with Muslim communities. Eric Pickles, the secretary of state for communities and local government,...

It’s been welfare week. The ‘benefits cap’ was a sideshow. George Osborne really needs to get better at politics. The key to tricking your opponents is not to smirk at the same time. If you want Labour to become unpopular on welfare then don’t erect a large sign...

With the excitement of a fevered conference season now over, business as usual returns to the House of Commons. Amid the grand visions offered to us by all party leaders, actual legislation continues to work its way through Westminster’s many corridors this week on a...

If you want to know why David Cameron is going to lose the next election, don’t look at the Department of Health, don’t look at the Treasury, and don’t look at the Department for Work and Pensions. Look instead at the Department for International Development. Since...