A Labour candidate was told that she was not a proper Muslim because she had a Western first name, she has revealed. Heather Iqbal was heavily defeated in Dewsbury and Batley by Iqbal Mohamed ...

Mohamed, who was born and raised in Dewsbury, is an engineer and ... 1 percent of the total vote share, whilst the Labour Party candidate Heather Iqbal received 8,707 votes, or 22.9 percent ...