Charities warned over election support

By Paul Jump and Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector Online, 21 January 2008

The Charity Commission has written to more than a dozen Muslim charities reminding them that they are not permitted to support political candidates after their names were included in an open letter supporting Ken Livingstone's bid to be re-elected as Mayor of London.

The letter, which was organised by the anti-Islamophobia group the British Muslim Initiative, was posted on The Guardian’ s Comment is Free blog on 3 January. It read: “We the undersigned believe that it is in the best interest of the Muslim communities of London, and indeed all Londoners, to...

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