Politics

The third main item on the agenda of the Tower Hamlets Council meeting on 16th September was questions from members of the public. This does allow members of the public to raise issues with the Council, but each individual is ...

The Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party met last Tuesday to choose one candidate – from a long list of 18 – to put on the Labour Party’s ballot paper, from which members will chose who will be the Labour ...

Figures released by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) show Tower Hamlets delivered the highest number of affordable homes in the country. Between 2010/11 and 2014/15 – essentially the period of Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration – Tower Hamlets ...

The idiosyncratic electoral processes of the Labour Party are once more on the march as the Party elects a new leadership team. And for a few days, there was a danger that Bethnal Green & Bow MP Rushanara Ali may ...

Last week the London Bangla newspaper shared a snapshot of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party website page devoted to John Biggs. Although it had been updated to show that Biggs was now Tower Hamlets mayor (as well as remaining a ...

Slightly overshadowed by the mayoral election, the voters of Stepney ward will vote in a by-election on 11th June too. There are seven candidates. Stepney was the first area in the country to elect a Respect councillor. The said Cllr ...

Many people thought it was unwise when Nigel Farage said he would resign as UKIP leader if he did not win the Westminster seat of Thanet South. He had been so clear about this promise that, when he did not ...

The Tories have the luxury of not having a leadership contest – and David Cameron’s getting quickly down to the job of making sure there isn’t one anytime soon as he builds his new Cabinet.  [Adverts] George Obsorne returns as ...

Every General Election is important, and tomorrow the nation has the chance to remove from office a Coalition Government which has protected its own at the expense of the many. What are we to put in its place? There’s not ...

Are we on the brink of another Labour upset? Three weeks ago it seemed self-evident that the borough’s sitting Labour MPs would walk through to victory at the General Election. That was before the election court verdict in the case ...