UK Labour by-election candidate faces disinformation campaign over asylum-seeker claims

Sugal Abdi Waly, Labour's by-election candidate for Holborn and St. Pancras, is the target of a social media misinformation campaign falsely claiming he is a Somali asylum seeker. The claims are unsubstantiated; the candidate's background is being distorted to undermine his candidacy. This highlights the growing role of disinformation in UK electoral politics.