John Biggs is to reveal his Cabinet at tonight’s reconvened AGM of Tower Hamlets Council – but BD News 24 is reporting who the Cabinet will be. Expected Cabinet John Biggs has already announced that instead of having just one ...
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Local Labour relocates John “two jobs” Biggs
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 ...
Read More »Biggs welcomes Michelle Obama – but doesn’t notice Bangladeshi press exclusion
As Michelle Obama, First Lady of the USA, and her two daughters visited Mulberry School today, John Biggs made one of his first press statements as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. John Biggs gushed: “It’s fantastic that the First Lady ...
Read More »John Biggs and the missing Labour votes
The predominant emotion in the Labour Party campaign when they woke up on Friday morning (or maybe even Friday afternoon) was probably not elation so much as relief. Although John Biggs won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election, he lost a large ...
Read More »Abu Talha: The Next Generation is here!
Abu Talha Chowdhury could be the youngest member of Tower Hamlets Council if he is elected on 11th June – and what a breath of fresh air he would be on a body that so often seems to be far ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 1: Biggs pledges to hold more public meetings
While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...
Read More »Trouble comes in threes for Labour’s Biggs
They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...
Read More »Ten hopefuls line up in race for Mayor
Twenty-four hours after nominations closed, Tower Hamlets Council has announced the list of candidate in the coming election for mayor of Tower Hamlets. The leading two contenders are Cllr Rabina Khan and John Biggs AM. Cllr Khan has been Cabinet ...
Read More »Is this the man who can halt the Labour shoo-in?
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 ...
Read More »Cllr Rabina Khan steps up to the front line
The news that Cllr Rabina Khan will stand in the mayoral election on 11th June, announced at last Thursday’s rally at the Waterlilly, will come as a delight to many voters in Tower Hamlets. As Cabinet Member for Housing (and, ...
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