Politics

LAST SUNDAY, 9th June, Councillor Humayun Kabir marked his election as Mayor of the London Borough of Croydon at his Inaugural Dinner at The Hilton Hotel, Purley Way. The Mayor was joined by many distinguished guests, including the Rt Hon. ...

THE COUNCIL has a new “Speaker” – Cllr Victoria Obaze, who was elected at the AGM on 15th May. But will she be a dignitary who sits in the Town Hall or one who comes out and confronts difficult issues ...

HOME SECRETARY Sajid Javid is the second leading Tory to be accused of an abuse of power in the last few days. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawer to Shamima Begum, has written to him with the accusation. Shamima Begum was one ...

LABOUR IS licking its wounds in Tower Hamlets as official figures show the Party attracted just 25,602 votes from across the Borough in last Thursday’s election of Members of the European Parliament. Since Lutfur Rahman was first elected Mayor of ...

THE NATIONS WAIT… The results of the elections to the European Parliament will be announced tonight, Sunday 26th. For UK voters, who went to the polls last Thursday, it’s been a long wait – but no results are announced until ...

DON’T DELAY if you want to become Jim Fitzpatrick’s new parliamentary assistant. The Labour MP for Poplar & Limehouse has put the message out on Twitter that he is looking for someone to join his office in the House of ...

HE’S TAKEN the rubbish back in-house, but not the people. That’s the shocking news to emerge from the Town Hall this week, as John Biggs pulls another of his strange stunts to convenience the Council rather than the public. A ...

WE’RE IN THE middle of Mental Health Awareness Week – and Tower Hamlets Council and Tower Hamlets NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have joined forces to promote positive attitudes to body images. The Mental Health Foundation has estimated that nearly ...

NO UK GOVERNMENT has sold off the NHS as a single entity – but recent ones have been letting the private sector take over various parts of the service. There’s a number of big problems with this piecemeal privatisation. •Private ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan is comparing his record of building new homes in the capital by the record of his predecessor(s) – rather than by housing need across London. Khan has just released new figures showing that council house building ...