Press

Election coverage

• On the road in Chingford and Woodford Green: Politics Weekly UK Podcast
  John Harris, The Guardian Podcast, 20 June 2024

• Snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan backs independent candidate Faiza Shaheen in General Election
  Ashley Cowburn, The Mirror, 17 June 2024

Profile pieces 

• ‘How can they treat people like this?’ Faiza Shaheen on Labour — and why she’s running as an independent
  Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 5 June 2024

• Faiza Shaheen: I can unseat Iain Duncan Smith this time
  Marco Marcelline, Waltham Forest Echo, 27 April 2024.

• Social mobility is a fairytale: Faiza Shaheen on fighting for Labour and hating Oxford
  Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian, 29 May 2023.

• Rising stars of 2017: campaigner Faiza Shaheen 
  Yvonne Roberts, The Guardian, 1 Jan 2017.

Faiza’s treatment by the Labour Party

• 50 Chingford and Woodford Labour Party members resign over Faiza Shaheen
  Marco Marcelline, Waltham Forest Echo, 11 June 2024.

• Why Labour was wrong to deselect Faiza Shaheen
  LSE professors Mike Savage, Suzi Hall, Sam Friedman and Suki Ali, The Guardian Letters, 10 June 2024

• Faiza Shaheen resigns from the Labour Party
  Marco Marcelline, Waltham Forest Echo, 4 June 2024.

• Faiza Shaheen has been badly let down by Labour - as have voters 
  The Guardian Letters, 3 June 2024

• Exclusive: Channel 4 News obtains audio of Faiza Shaheen’s Labour candidacy interview
  Ayshah Tull, Channel 4, 3 June 2024.

• Faiza Shaheen: Labour blocks another left-winger from election
  Video Interview: PoliticsJoe, 2 June 2024

• Purged By Starmer: Faiza Shaheen Speaks Out
  Video Interview: Owen Jones, 2 June 2024

• Residents Furious over Faiza Shaheen’s Deselection
  Novara Media, 1 June 2024

• Faiza Shaheen says her candidacy has been blocked by Labour
  Video Interview: Newsnight, 29 May 2024

Comment pieces

• I was mistreated – and that’s why hundreds of people will no longer vote Labour, they’ve told me
  Faiza Shaheen, The Guardian, 31 May 2024

• Now it’s clear: hard work doesn’t make you rich. Surely that’s the death knell for the myth of social mobility
  Faiza Shaheen, The Guardian, 19 September 2023. 

• Power and the people - understanding political change and how it happens 
  Faiza Shaheen, LSE Blog, 28 November 2023.

• ‘White working class’: the label that seeks to divide and rule
  Faiza Shaheen, The Guardian, 22 March 2017.