Bethnal Green & Bow MP defies official Labour instruction to oppose Tory austerity charter Five years ago, Labour’s National Executive removed Lutfur Rahman as Labour’s candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets – without notice. Several local Labour figures condemned the then Cllr ...

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 ...

African Families Service The first public petition to be heard at the Council meeting on 16th September came from the Pastors and Community Leaders Group, asking the Council to note their opposition to the African Families Service being cut. Labour ...

Labour’s John Biggs has taken time out from his full-time job as mayor of Tower Hamlets to do some work on his full-time job as a Member of the Greater London Authority. Last week he issued a press release condemning ...

Tower Hamlets Labour and Tory Councillors united in the last week of August and agreed to spend up to £200,000 a year employing an additional senior officer – just weeks after 237 community organisations learned that John Biggs’s Administration did ...

John Biggs and Tory Leader Peter Golds unite to back candidate Labour and Tory councillors appoint candidate who is under police investigation Independent councillors abstain following last minute release of shock information On Wednesday evening (26th August), John Biggs stood ...

Support builds for Abdal Ullah as Labour members warm to “a safe pair of hands” Labour Party members across East London will begin voting on Monday to choose a Labour candidate for the Greater London Assembly elections next May. And ...

The report starts at the bottom of this post: new paragraphs are being added at the top. 20.34  With two minutes left, Cllr Oli Rahman moved that the order of business be changed so the Council could discuss a motion ...

Cllr Rabina Khan will take the lead at tonight’s meeting of Tower Hamlets Council (22nd July) – the first scheduled Council meeting since John Biggs squeaked to victory in the mayoral election – and call on John Biggs to run ...

John Biggs, Member of the Greater London Assembly (GLA) for the City & East constituency, will be stepping down in May 2016. He has been a GLA member since 2000, and will have spent the last year of his GLA ...