Politics

THE GIANT CONSTRUCTION and construction related services company Carillion is going into liquidation. The collapse will take months, maybe years, to sort out – and the consequences will ripple through the supply chain and the whole economy. Carillion is the ...

DECLARE TOWER HAMLETS a Trump Free Zone! That’s what Cllr Ohid Ahmed is calling on John Biggs to do. He has tabled a motion for the Council meeting next week, asking the whole Council to join him in asking John ...

NEW RESEARCH commissioned by London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that a “hard Brexit” could subdue economic growth for ten years – handing London “a lost decade of lower growth”. The warning comes from Cambridge Econometrics, a company commissioned by ...

THE RISE IN house prices in 2017 was the slowest for five years claims the Halifax, the UK’s largest mortgage lender – echoing a similar finding announced by the Nationwide just days ago. The news prompts further concern about the ...

ARE THE TORIES as green as they seem? Labour has cast doubt on the Government’s environmental credentials as it announced the result of a “coal closure” consultation. The two parties agree that coal-fired power generating plants emit too much carbon ...

DAYS AFTER Independent Group councillor Ohid Ahmed called for Tower Hamlets mayor to set up a voluntary register of retailers to log sales of corrosive liquids, a group of national retailers have come to a voluntary agreement to curb sales ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has responded to the New Year stabbings across London by reminding schools that he has offered to supply them with “knife wands” – metal detectors which help schools check that pupils are not bringing knives onto ...

BREXIT – and the Government’s mishandling of negotiations – is laying the basis for a long term decline in the British economy. This is the view of Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Shadow Business Secretary in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Her comments ...

WHAT HAPPENS if Brexit sees tens of thousands of financial sector jobs disappear from East London? That was the question rippling through East London, as politicians wondered if the Colman’s closure would be repeated in the capital. Yesterday Colman’s, manufacturers ...

TORY GOVERNMENT should be “deeply ashamed” of the latest figures which show that record numbers of patients have been left waiting in ambulances, unable to gain admission to hospital A&E departments this winter – according to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. ...