HIS FIRST mayoral election victory came in 2010. The second happened in 2014. Now, as he prepares to launch his campaign, Lutfur Rahman is hoping he can make it the third victory in a row in 2022. A win in ...

ON THE FACE of it, this has to be good news. The Metropolitan Police have just announced that 16 people were arrested in Tower Hamlets and Hackney during a recent “hit day”, bringing total arrests to 145 since March 2020. ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has announced that there will be two snap exhibitions this week where the public can see the most up to date plans for the new Town Hall in Whitechapel. This is the last chance to see the ...

The smallest things can have the biggest influence on a political career. If then Labour Leader Michael Foot had put a different coat on that day he went to the Cenotaph, perhaps he would have become Prime Minister. His crime, ...

Tower Hamlets Mayor, John “two jobs” Biggs, is making sure that Mayor Lutfur’s vision for a new Town Hall in Whitechapel is coming together. As the Mulberry Place Town Hall was being demolished, so its owners could redevelop the site, ...

Hidden away among the news on Budget day was a Metropolitan Police announcement: that there will be no criminal prosecutions arsing out of the Judgement in the Election Court issued in April 2015. Though this was always the most likely ...

On 23rd April – St George’s Day – last year, the first directly-elected Muslim mayor, Lutfur Rahman, a man who had won two boroughwide elections in Tower Hamlets, was dismissed from office at the stroke of a pen from a ...

Lutfur Rahman’s lawyers attended the High Court today to ask the Court for permission to apply for a Judicial Review into the Election Court’s ruling earlier this year that Lutfur Rahman should be removed from office. They were granted permission ...

Welcoming an award won by a park opened by Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Labour’s John Biggs said: “We are delighted that the Landscape Institute has awarded Derbyshire Pocket Park first prize in the ‘Design for a Small Scale Development’ category.” Not ...

Thanks to Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s initiative to introduce a “Mayor’s Cup” football competition, grants to community football groups are now available. And just before Xmas John “two jobs” Biggs found time in his busy schedule holding down two full-time jobs ...