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'''Inaya Folarin Iman''' (born November 1996) is a British journalist, commentator and [[television presenter]] for [[GB News]]. She is also the director and founder of The Equiano Project (named after abolitionist [[Olaudah Equiano]]), which describes itself as "a debate, discussion and ideas forum" which "focus[es] on race, culture and politics".<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.theequianoproject.com/about |website=The Equiano Project |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref> In September 2021, she was appointed as a Trustee for the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inaya-folarin-iman-and-simon-sebag-montefiore-appointed-as-trustees-of-the-national-portrait-gallery |publisher=[[gov.uk]] |title=Inaya Folarin Iman and Simon Sebag Montefiore appointed as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. |access-date=2021-09-26}}</ref>


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'''Inaya Folarin Iman''' (born 8 November 1996) is a British journalist, commentator, and [[television presenter]] who has presented for [[GB News]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Iman, Inaya Folarin, (born 8 Nov. 1996), Director, Equiano Project, since 2020; Head, Public Events Programme, Civic Future, since 2022 |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-296350 |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u296350}}</ref> She is also the director and founder of the Equiano Project (named after abolitionist [[Olaudah Equiano]]), which describes itself as "a debate, discussion and ideas forum" that "focus[es] on race, culture and politics".<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.theequianoproject.com/about |website=The Equiano Project |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref> A 2023 conference held by the organisation was described as a “wonderful and inspiring gathering” by [[Ian Leslie (writer)|Ian Leslie]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Testimonials |url=https://www.theequianoproject.com/testimonials-ttcg |website=The Equiano Project |access-date=3 October 2024}}</ref> In September 2021, she was appointed as a trustee for the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inaya-folarin-iman-and-simon-sebag-montefiore-appointed-as-trustees-of-the-national-portrait-gallery |publisher=[[gov.uk]] |title=Inaya Folarin Iman and Simon Sebag Montefiore appointed as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. |access-date=26 September 2021}}</ref>
Iman was signed by GB News, a news channel which began broadcasting in June 2021. On the channel, she hosts a weekly culture and politics show, ''The Discussion'', which airs every Sunday from 3pm to 4pm.<ref>{{cite web |title=GB News launches radio channel to shake up traditional media |url=https://www.gbnews.uk/news/gb-news-launches-radio-channel-to-shake-up-traditional-media/188142 |website=GB News |date=21 December 2021 |access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref> She is also GB News' Culture and Social Affairs Editor.

Iman was signed by GB News, a news channel that began broadcasting in June 2021. On the channel, she hosted a weekly culture and politics show, ''The Discussion'', which aired every Sunday until May 2022. In 2023, Iman became a regular panellist for the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme ''[[The Moral Maze]]''.

== Early life ==
Born in [[Tooting]], south London, in 1996, Iman is the daughter of Bola Anike. She is of Nigerian descent.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dialogues |first=Bajada |date=2024-07-20 |title=Inaya Folarin Iman – Bajada Dialogues – Podcast |url=https://podtail.com/podcast/bajada-dialogues/inaya-folarin-iman/ |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=Podtail |language=en}}</ref> She was educated at [[Hockerill Anglo-European College]] in [[Hertfordshire]], St John Fisher Roman Catholic School in [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]], [[Tonbridge Grammar School]] and the [[University of Leeds]], where she gained a BA in Arabic and International Relations in 2019.<ref name=":0" />


==Political views==
==Political views==
A supporter of [[Brexit|Britain's withdrawal from the EU]] and former [[Brexit Party]] candidate,<ref name="BP">{{cite news |title=As a Brexit Party candidate I'm disappointed some are having to stand down |url=https://inews.co.uk/opinion/brexit-party-candidate-not-happy-some-standing-down-but-its-clear-there-a-choice-362961 |work=inews.co.uk |date=14 November 2019}}</ref> Iman was a member of the [[Free Speech Union]] and was a former project manager for [[Index on Censorship]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Who We Are |url=https://freespeechunion.org/about/who-we-are/ |website=The Free Speech Union |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>
A supporter of [[Brexit|Britain's withdrawal from the EU]] and former [[Brexit Party]] candidate,<ref name="BP">{{cite news |title=As a Brexit Party candidate I'm disappointed some are having to stand down |url=https://inews.co.uk/opinion/brexit-party-candidate-not-happy-some-standing-down-but-its-clear-there-a-choice-362961 |work=inews.co.uk |date=14 November 2019}}</ref> Iman was a founding board member of the [[Free Speech Union]] and was a former project manager for [[Index on Censorship]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Who We Are |url=https://freespeechunion.org/about/who-we-are/ |website=The Free Speech Union |access-date=21 June 2021 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807132243/https://freespeechunion.org/about/who-we-are/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Iman has criticised [[Black Lives Matter]], seeing the movement as an "opportunistic pretext for an outpouring of self-righteous rage".<ref name="sherwin1"/> Following the [[murder of George Floyd]], Iman criticised comparisons between black people's experiences in the United Kingdom and the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=Has Black Lives Matter made a difference? |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/has-black-lives-matter-made-a-difference-cnbd80bg0 |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=The Sunday Times |url-access=limited |date=25 May 2021}}</ref> Alongside [[Andrew Doyle (comedian)|Andrew Doyle]], [[Claire Fox]] and others, she was co-signator of a letter in ''[[The Spectator]]'' which said that "activists, corporations and institutions seem to have seized the opportunity to exploit Floyd's death to promote an ideological agenda that threatens to undermine British [[race relations]]. ... We must oppose and expose the racial division being sown in the name of anti-racism."<ref>{{cite news |title=Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/racial-division-is-being-sown-in-the-name-of-anti-racism-it-s-time-to-speak-out |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=The Spectator |date=30 June 2020}}</ref> She has also called gestures such as "[[taking the knee]]" against racism as part of a [[culture war]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Adejobi |first1=Alicia |title=GB News' Inaya accuses England team of 'waging culture war on fans' |url=https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/14/gb-news-inaya-accuses-england-team-of-waging-culture-war-by-taking-knee-14766436/ |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=Metro |date=14 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Balla |first1=Reemul |title='GB News is a breath of fresh air but a few things made me cringe' |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/news-opinion/i-watched-gb-news-first-20815226 |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=MyLondon |date=16 June 2021}}</ref>
Iman has criticised [[Black Lives Matter]], seeing the movement as an "opportunistic pretext for an outpouring of self-righteous rage".<ref name="sherwin1"/> Following the [[murder of George Floyd]], Iman criticised comparisons between black people's experiences in the United Kingdom and the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=Has Black Lives Matter made a difference? |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/has-black-lives-matter-made-a-difference-cnbd80bg0 |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=The Sunday Times |url-access=limited |date=25 May 2021}}</ref> Alongside [[Andrew Doyle (comedian)|Andrew Doyle]], [[Claire Fox]] and others, she was co-signator of a letter in ''[[The Spectator]]'' which said that "activists, corporations and institutions seem to have seized the opportunity to exploit Floyd's death to promote an ideological agenda that threatens to undermine British [[race relations]]. ... We must oppose and expose the racial division being sown in the name of anti-racism."<ref>{{cite news |title=Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/racial-division-is-being-sown-in-the-name-of-anti-racism-it-s-time-to-speak-out |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=The Spectator |date=30 June 2020}}</ref> She has also criticised gestures such as "[[taking the knee]]" against racism, which she sees as part of a [[culture war]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Adejobi |first1=Alicia |title=GB News' Inaya accuses England team of 'waging culture war on fans' |url=https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/14/gb-news-inaya-accuses-england-team-of-waging-culture-war-by-taking-knee-14766436/ |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=Metro |date=14 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Balla |first1=Reemul |title='GB News is a breath of fresh air but a few things made me cringe' |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/news-opinion/i-watched-gb-news-first-20815226 |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=MyLondon |date=16 June 2021}}</ref>


Writing for ''[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]'', she rejected the claims of BLM that Britain is a racist society, saying that in the UK, "racial equality is near achieved and so-called [[structural racism]] has been almost totally eradicated".<ref name="sherwin1"/><ref name=spiked1>{{cite news |title=2020: the year racial identity took over |url=https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/27/2020-the-year-racial-identity-took-over/ |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=www.spiked-online.com |date=27 December 2020}}</ref>
Writing for ''[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]'', she rejected the claims of BLM that Britain is a racist society, saying that in the UK, "racial equality is near achieved and so-called [[structural racism]] has been almost totally eradicated".<ref name="sherwin1"/><ref name=spiked1>{{cite news |title=2020: the year racial identity took over |url=https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/27/2020-the-year-racial-identity-took-over/ |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=www.spiked-online.com |date=27 December 2020}}</ref>


She has written for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]'',<ref name="sherwin1"/> ''[[Standpoint (magazine)|Standpoint]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title=A defence of difference |url=https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/july-2020/a-defence-of-difference/ |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=Standpoint |date=10 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804202919/https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/july-2020/a-defence-of-difference/ |archive-date=4 August 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[BrexitCentral]],<ref>{{cite news |title=The compelling 'take back control' mantra must be harnessed to bring about long-term political change |url=https://brexitcentral.com/the-compelling-take-back-control-mantra-must-be-harnessed-to-bring-about-long-term-political-change/ |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=BrexitCentral |date=17 November 2019}}</ref> [[gal-dem]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Are we doing enough to help our homelands? |last=Folarin Iman |first=Inaya |url=https://gal-dem.com/helping-our-homelands/ |work=gal-dem |date=2 May 2018}}</ref> and the ''[[i (newspaper)|i]]''.<ref name="BP" /> She has featured and made appearances on ''[[Politics Live]]'', ''[[The Big Questions]]'', ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'', ''[[Sky News]]'', ''[[Moral Maze]]'', ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'' and ''[[BBC Radio 5 Live]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inaya Folarin Iman |url=https://debatingmatters.com/person/inaya-folarin-iman/ |website=Debating Matters |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>
She has written for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', the ''[[Daily Mail]],'' ''[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]''<ref name="sherwin1" /> and other national publications. She regularly features and makes appearances on ''[[Politics Live]]'', ''[[The Big Questions]]'', ''[[Sky News]]'', ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'', ''[[Sunday Morning Live (British TV programme)|Sunday Morning Live]]'' and ''[[Question Time]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inaya Folarin Iman |url=https://debatingmatters.com/person/inaya-folarin-iman/ |website=Debating Matters |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>

== Electoral record ==
{{Election box begin||title=[[2019 United Kingdom general election|General election 2019]]: [[Leeds North East (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds North East]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.leeds.gov.uk/your-council/elections/parliamentary-general-election-results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214162952/https://www.leeds.gov.uk/your-council/elections/parliamentary-general-election-results |archive-date=14 December 2019 |title=Parliamentary General Election results}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/constituencies/E14000779|title=Leeds North East parliamentary constituency - Election 2019|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|candidate=[[Fabian Hamilton]]|votes=29,024|percentage=57.5|change=-5.6}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=[[Amjad Bashir]]<sup>1</sup>|votes=11,935|percentage=23.6|change=-7.4|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Democrats (UK)|candidate=Jon Hannah|votes=5,665|percentage=11.2|change=+7.5|}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Green Party of England and Wales|candidate=Rachel Hartshorne|votes=1,931|percentage=3.8|change=+2.5}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Brexit Party|candidate=Inaya Folarin Iman|votes=1,769|percentage=3.5|change=''New''|}}
{{Election box candidate|party=Alliance for Green Socialism|candidate=Celia Foote|votes=176|percentage=0.3|change=+0.1}}
{{Election box majority||votes=17,089|percentage=33.8 <!-- This is the correct rounding when exact values are used -->|change=+1.7}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=50,500|percentage=71.6|change=-4.25}}
{{Election box hold with party link||winner=Labour Party (UK)|swing=+0.9}}
{{Election box end}}
<sup>1</sup> The Conservative Party suspended Amjad Bashir on 20 November 2019. He still appeared on ballot papers under the Conservative label, as nominations had closed by the time of the suspension.<ref name="BBC20112019">{{cite news |title=General election 2019: Tory candidate Amjad Bashir suspended over anti-Semitism |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50491208 |access-date=17 February 2022 |work=BBC News |date=20 November 2019}}</ref>


==References==
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Latest revision as of 17:13, 13 November 2024

Inaya Folarin Iman
Iman in 2021
Born
Inaya Folarin Iman

(1996-11-08) 8 November 1996 (age 28)
Tooting, London
Notable credits

Inaya Folarin Iman (born 8 November 1996) is a British journalist, commentator, and television presenter who has presented for GB News.[2] She is also the director and founder of the Equiano Project (named after abolitionist Olaudah Equiano), which describes itself as "a debate, discussion and ideas forum" that "focus[es] on race, culture and politics".[3] A 2023 conference held by the organisation was described as a “wonderful and inspiring gathering” by Ian Leslie.[4] In September 2021, she was appointed as a trustee for the National Portrait Gallery in London.[5]

Iman was signed by GB News, a news channel that began broadcasting in June 2021. On the channel, she hosted a weekly culture and politics show, The Discussion, which aired every Sunday until May 2022. In 2023, Iman became a regular panellist for the BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze.

Early life

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Born in Tooting, south London, in 1996, Iman is the daughter of Bola Anike. She is of Nigerian descent.[6] She was educated at Hockerill Anglo-European College in Hertfordshire, St John Fisher Roman Catholic School in Chatham, Tonbridge Grammar School and the University of Leeds, where she gained a BA in Arabic and International Relations in 2019.[2]

Political views

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A supporter of Britain's withdrawal from the EU and former Brexit Party candidate,[7] Iman was a founding board member of the Free Speech Union and was a former project manager for Index on Censorship.[8]

Iman has criticised Black Lives Matter, seeing the movement as an "opportunistic pretext for an outpouring of self-righteous rage".[1] Following the murder of George Floyd, Iman criticised comparisons between black people's experiences in the United Kingdom and the United States.[9] Alongside Andrew Doyle, Claire Fox and others, she was co-signator of a letter in The Spectator which said that "activists, corporations and institutions seem to have seized the opportunity to exploit Floyd's death to promote an ideological agenda that threatens to undermine British race relations. ... We must oppose and expose the racial division being sown in the name of anti-racism."[10] She has also criticised gestures such as "taking the knee" against racism, which she sees as part of a culture war.[11][12]

Writing for Spiked, she rejected the claims of BLM that Britain is a racist society, saying that in the UK, "racial equality is near achieved and so-called structural racism has been almost totally eradicated".[1][13]

She has written for The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, Spiked[1] and other national publications. She regularly features and makes appearances on Politics Live, The Big Questions, Sky News, Good Morning Britain, Sunday Morning Live and Question Time.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Sherwin, Andrew (2 March 2021). "Andrew Neil's GB News signs 'woke opponent' Inaya Folarin Iman as a presenter". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Iman, Inaya Folarin, (born 8 Nov. 1996), Director, Equiano Project, since 2020; Head, Public Events Programme, Civic Future, since 2022". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u296350. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  3. ^ "About". The Equiano Project. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Testimonials". The Equiano Project. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Inaya Folarin Iman and Simon Sebag Montefiore appointed as Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery". gov.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  6. ^ Dialogues, Bajada (20 July 2024). "Inaya Folarin Iman – Bajada Dialogues – Podcast". Podtail. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  7. ^ "As a Brexit Party candidate I'm disappointed some are having to stand down". inews.co.uk. 14 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Who We Are". The Free Speech Union. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Has Black Lives Matter made a difference?". The Sunday Times. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism". The Spectator. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  11. ^ Adejobi, Alicia (14 June 2021). "GB News' Inaya accuses England team of 'waging culture war on fans'". Metro. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  12. ^ Balla, Reemul (16 June 2021). "'GB News is a breath of fresh air but a few things made me cringe'". MyLondon. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  13. ^ "2020: the year racial identity took over". www.spiked-online.com. 27 December 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  14. ^ "Inaya Folarin Iman". Debating Matters. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
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