As Michelle Obama, First Lady of the USA, and her two daughters visited Mulberry School today, John Biggs made one of his first press statements as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. John Biggs gushed: “It’s fantastic that the First Lady ...
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John Biggs and the missing Labour votes
The predominant emotion in the Labour Party campaign when they woke up on Friday morning (or maybe even Friday afternoon) was probably not elation so much as relief. Although John Biggs won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election, he lost a large ...
Read More »Waiting for a four-bedroomed home? All you need is £1.2 million…
Eco World Ballymore has launched the second phase of “London City Island”. They are going to build two blocks of flats which will contain 417 new homes of various sizes (one to four bedrooms, and “suites”, which appears to be ...
Read More »Labour: this was no walk in the park
The last weekend of the mayoral election campaign in Tower Hamlets saw questions being raised about how the Labour Party came to use a public park for a “campaign event”. Either the Party had hired Altab Ali Park (which would ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 2: If I can smash the glass ceiling, so can you!
Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the mayoral campaign explaining that standing for election as Mayor of Tower Hamlets is a big step for her – but it could be a step forward for women across ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 1: Biggs pledges to hold more public meetings
While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...
Read More »Trouble comes in threes for Labour’s Biggs
They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...
Read More »Ten hopefuls line up in race for Mayor
Twenty-four hours after nominations closed, Tower Hamlets Council has announced the list of candidate in the coming election for mayor of Tower Hamlets. The leading two contenders are Cllr Rabina Khan and John Biggs AM. Cllr Khan has been Cabinet ...
Read More »More homes built – but not in London!
The first quarter of 2015 saw 40,000 new homes being registered in the UK, according to figures collected by the NHBC. Unfortunately, only 5,622 of these were in London and, across the whole of the UK, only 9,735 were public ...
Read More »Duck! Gove lines up to ditch Human Rights Act
The Tories have the luxury of not having a leadership contest – and David Cameron’s getting quickly down to the job of making sure there isn’t one anytime soon as he builds his new Cabinet. [Adverts] George Obsorne returns as ...
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