Politics

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 ...

HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has resigned – after Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party called on her to go. Rudd had denied knowing that the Home Office set targets for how many people should be deported – a strategy which may have led ...

THE GOVERNMENT has suffered a defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill – the legislation which will make Brexit happen. It happened in the House of Lords, which voted on the issue of whether the UK should negotiate a UK/EU customs ...