A “PEOPLE’S BUDGET” has been passed by Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday, 26th February, after nearly three hours of debate. This was the third budget proposed by Mayor Lutfur Rahman since he was elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, for the ...

LABOUR’S BUDGET, delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves but clearly endorsed by Keir Starmer, has divided economists and journalists alike. It’s also divided the three Tower Hamlets MPs. ●Poplar & Limehouse MP Apsana Begum took a balanced view – welcoming some ...

IT WAS business as usual down on the Tower Hamlets Council meeting on Wednesday, 19th February as the ruling Labour Group managed to force its budget through. As the agenda item began, Executive Mayor John Biggs introduced his Budget to ...

Osborne warned us, in effect, that this week’s budget will be a shocker when he announced earlier this week that he is aiming to cut public spending by half by 2020. He thought cuts on this scale would be necessary ...

Chancellor George Osborne has delivered the Coalition Government’s budget for 2011.

Seven Labour councillors voted against amendments put forward by the Labour party..

Tower Hamlets Council will meet on Tuesday 8 March seeking to agree budget proposals

IN HIS OWN WORDS, Lutfur Rahman described the budget that he intends to bring to the Council in February. He was speaking at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 7th January. The budget papers before the Cabinet were not the final ...

THE TOWER HAMLETS Council Cabinet met on Wednesday, 7th January – in what was probably the warmest room in the Town Hall.  The meeting had a single main item on the agenda: the budget for 2026/27 – but it began ...

BEFORE WE look forward to 2026, let’s take a moment to look back at what was happening in Tower Hamlets in 2025. What was the Council up to? What were its memorable moments? Here’s the highlights of the first six ...