Politics

CAMPAIGNERS FROM Save Our Nurseries tried to find a crumb of comfort in their campaign this weekend – by taking a giant cake to an event where John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, was due to speak. The campaigners ...

“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s ...

THE TORY Government has a failing record on building social homes, says John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary. Healey was speaking as new statistics were released showing that the number of government funded socially rented homes being built has ...

Emdad Rahman Improving equality, inclusion and supporting Croydon’s communities were announced as the priorities of the borough’s new Mayor and the Deputy Mayor as both were sworn in for their respective offices at Croydon Council’s latest AGM. Liverpudlian Councillor Bernadette ...

ELN Exclusive: IN A TRIBUTE TO the direct action of the suffragettes, Tower Hamlets Save Our Nurseries campaigners pressed their cause with John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, on one of his first engagements outside the Town Hall since ...

JOHN BIGGS has shocked voters across Tower Hamlets – as one of his first acts after the election was to hand pay rises to councillors taking the top positions in his Administration. John Biggs was declared Mayor after second preference ...

JEREMY CORBYN has issued a message to mark the beginning of Ramadan. Corbyn has a lifelong record of standing with and standing up for the ordinary people who are oppressed by the powerful – on grounds of race, religion or ...

THE GOVERNMENT announced on Friday morning that it will respond to the growing need for school places in England and Wales by allowing a limited expansion of grammar schools and faith schools. The Conservative Party has long regarded itself as ...

TOWER HAMLETS IS counting. The candidates, their supporters, the press (seven of us so far), Council staff, venue staff and the police are spread out in a cavern in the Excel Centre in Newham. And the ballot boxes are in. ...

TWO MAJOR UK supermarkets – ASDA and Sainsbury’s – have agreed terms for a merger in which the two supermarkets will continue as separate outlets but will share a management structure. Should East Londoners be cheering – or crying with ...