Politics

MAYOR LUTFUR RAHMAN began the Cabinet meeting last week – taking place during the first week of Ramadan – by extending Ramadan greetings to everyone in the Town Hall and the community. He explained how important Ramadan is to Muslims, ...

IT’S A colossal victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which has won a landslide victory in the first General Election since the 2024 uprising sent Sheikh Hasina to exile in India and her Awami League party into the political ...

IT’S NEVER easy for a political party to write its manifesto. Usually the problem is how to condense all their aspirations, all the things they want to achieve, into a short snappy statement that people will read. But when it ...

STARMER knows this is serious. It was bad enough when an enlivened Kemi Badenoch seized the gift of the Mandelson scandal to give the Prime Minister a firm telling off in the House of Commons – but now his own ...

THE TRAIL of destruction Peter Mandelson leaves in his wake is vast. As Labour loyalists – from elected representatives to ordinary party members – queue up to denounce him, the question “what took you so long?” remains unanswered. Mandelson’s transgressions ...

NINETY-FIVE new social homes for rent are opening their doors to residents on the Tower Hamlets housing waiting list. The homes have been built by local housing association East End Homes. Mayor Lutfur Rahman turned out to cut the ribbon ...

MAYOR LUTFUR RAHMAN has spoken out about the Government’s decision to allow the Chinese Government to build a new mega-embassy on the site of the former Royal Mint, near the Tower of London. The planning application initially came to the ...

LUTFUR RAHMAN – most residents in Tower Hamlets have heard of him and know he is the Directly Elected Mayor. Kim Bromley-Derry (above) would not have anything like the same name recognition – but he is the man sent in ...

KEMY BADENOCH must be fuming. She was having quite a good week – made some strong points at and even got some jokes into Prime Minister’s Question Time, and looking like a Conservative Party Leader. Then it all went wrong. ...

IN HIS OWN WORDS, Lutfur Rahman described the budget that he intends to bring to the Council in February. He was speaking at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 7th January. The budget papers before the Cabinet were not the final ...