Overview
- Arshad Khatana, a Leeds mosque leader and local Labour member, has been administratively suspended pending an investigation.
- Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick released a video and a 111-page dossier alleging Khatana shared content glorifying proscribed militants, hosted preachers with antisemitic statements, and promoted 9/11 and “Rothschild” conspiracies.
- The Reform dossier claims Rachel Reeves has been photographed with Khatana at least 27 times since 2010, alleging visits that included his home and Westminster.
- A Labour spokesperson said the alleged views are not shared by the chancellor and that she was unaware of them, with the case now under party review.
- Khatana denies holding extreme or antisemitic views, while a 2013 photo of Nigel Farage meeting him at an interfaith event prompted accusations of hypocrisy that Farage called a one-off encounter.