Politics

THE NEW Labour Mayor of Newham, Forhad Hussain, will have an interesting four years as he battles a Council without a Labour majority. In one sense, the composition of the Council does not matter, as the Executive Mayor has delegated ...

HE IS BACK. Lutfur Rahman has won a decisive victory in the election for Mayor of Tower Hamlets. He topped the poll with over 31,000 votes – winning his fourth mayoral election. The ringing endorsement from voters came as a ...

IT WAS the opposition that won it for Labour. Rokhsana Fiaz stood down as labour Executive Mayor after two four year terms, and Labour selected Forhad Hussain as their candidate. Forhad, a former Labour Councillor for Plaistow North ward, won ...

HAVERING residents are in for a grim four years. Reform UK has swept away the other parties to take full control of the Council for the next four years. Traditionally Havering has been a Tory borough. Straddling London and south ...

LABOUR has ruled for 16 years, but today the Green surge has swept them out. The Green Party candidate for Mayor, Zoë Garbett, did not so much win the election for Mayor – she smashed it. Full result Zoë Garbett, ...

THE END of Birmingham’s long-running bin strike may be in sight – leaving the question: why on earth did the Labour Council take so long to settle the dispute? The problems began in September 2023 when Birmingham City Council effectively ...

KEIR STARMER has told the House of Commons why he did not know that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting. MPs listened in an atmosphere which veered between stony indifference and incandescent outrage. At the outrage end, two MPs ...

FREE school meals for all was one of the key promises of Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration when it took office in May 2022. The policy has paid off, with 38,000 school pupils benefitting from the scheme in the last four ...

PROTESTORS took to the streets of London on Saturday to show their opposition to the far right. The march came just weeks before most of the UK will be voting in elections in local government and the devolved nations. The ...

IT’S BAD NEWS for the UK economy – again. Poor old “Rachel from Accounts” keeps trying her best, but as soon as things look like they might be on the right track, something pops up to blow the economy off ...