From religious leaders who take on political roles to the daily influence of faith on political values, Dawn Foster and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – two practising believers – find themselves on opposite sides of the debate.
Dawn Foster is a staff writer for Tribune and Jacobin magazines, and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper. She regularly appears as a political commentator on the BBC’s Newsnight and Sky News.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author and weekly columnist for the i newspaper. She is also a co-founder of the charity British Muslims for Secular Democracy.
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