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No reliable, consolidated count of Muslim mayors across England in 2025 is provided in the available reporting; fact‑checks say many viral lists are misleading and that only a small number of high‑pro...
The UK’s “grooming gang” scandal refers to multiple high-profile investigations and convictions of group-based child sexual exploitation across towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and others, with inqui...
The UK’s Muslim population stood at roughly 3.9 million in the 2021 Census—about 6–6.5% of the national population—concentrated in major urban centres such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford ...
Reuters and other fact‑checkers show the viral claim that many English mayors elected in May 2024 were Muslim is misleading: only London’s directly elected mayor, Sadiq Khan, is clearly identified as ...
The only consistently and authoritatively confirmed in in 2025 from the provided reporting is , the directly elected Mayor of (a high‑profile, executive post) . Numerous other English towns and cities...
The claim that many English cities have had Muslim mayors since 2000 is ; reliable, recent analyses identify only a small set of verifiable cases, with Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) being the clearest ...
The analyses collectively identify a consistent set of UK cities often cited as having the largest or most significant Muslim populations by share and absolute numbers — notably Birmingham, Bradford, ...
Available reporting shows concentrated, high-profile convictions and inquiries—especially Rotherham, Rochdale and other grooming cases—where many convicted perpetrators were of Pakistani or British‑Pa...
has not been "overtaken" by Muslims; Muslims make up a growing but still modest share of the population (about 6.5% or 3.9 million in 2021) and projections show possible increases under some scenarios...
Available reporting does not provide a single, up‑to‑date percentage of English (or UK) mayors who are Muslim; fact‑checks note that some high‑profile mayors are Muslim (for example London’s Sadiq Kha...
Census-derived and ONS-based summaries show that London contains the largest number of Muslims of any region (about 1.28 million in 2019) while several northern cities have the highest proportions wit...
Current, verifiable reporting shows one nationally prominent directly elected mayor in the UK who is openly Muslim — London’s Sadiq Khan — while claims that nine or a majority of UK mayors are Muslim ...
Available reporting does not provide a definitive, sourced ranking of which single English local authority had the highest proportion of Muslim councillors in 2025; instead, contemporary coverage offe...
The best available 2025 summary of census material from the Muslim Council of Britain estimates there are about 4 million Muslims in Britain and reports Muslim shares of the population by nation: Engl...
Manchester has a by multiple indirect measures—mosque listings, community projects, and commercial indicators—but the sources provided do not offer a direct, quantitative comparison of Manchester’s Mu...
The UK Muslim population rose from about 2.7–2.8 million in 2011 to roughly 3.87–4.0 million in 2021, increasing its share from about 4.9% to roughly 6.5%–6.7% of the population (England & Wales figur...
Between the 2011 and 2021 censuses the of (counting England & in census releases) grew from roughly 2.7 million to about 3.87 million, raising its share of the population from about 5% to roughly 6.5%...
A precise, short answer: among England’s directly-elected executive mayors, Sadiq Khan — Mayor of London — is the only routinely reported current mayor who identifies as Muslim (Sadiq Khan) . Historic...
The Muslim population in the UK has expanded from roughly 1.6 million at the 2001 census to about 4.0 million by 2021, making Muslims 6.0% of the UK population and concentrated heavily in England—espe...
The available analyses do not provide a definitive list of UK cities with the fastest-growing Muslim populations specifically between 2020 and 2025; instead they rely largely on 2011 and 2021 census s...