Politics

DAVID may well have found a way to beat Goliath, but no one is laying odds that Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs will succeed in defeating one of the UK’s largest trade unions in the Tower Rewards saga. On ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...

EMAIL IS A quick and efficient way of contacting people, yes? Not always: when it comes to contacting the Tower Hamlets Council Communications Team, you may be better off walking over to the Town Hall, standing outside – and hollering ...

JOHN BIGGS has displayed the consistency of Boris Johnson explaining the relaxation of lockdown rules as he presides over the first boroughwide strike of Tower Hamlets Council workers in living memory.   All we need is for Matt Lucas to ...

Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer, analyst and public representative – calls on the Home Office to lift the “No Recourse to Public Funds” restriction. No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) is a standard condition applied to those staying in ...

KEIR STARMER has taken his first step towards silencing dissent in the Labour Party – by sacking Rebecca Long Bailey from the Shadow Cabinet. During the leadership election, Starmer said that he wanted to unite the Labour Party. Old cynics ...

JOHN BIGGS is to sack the entire Council workforce on Monday, 6th July in order to impose new terms and conditions at work upon them. Biggs was elected on a Labour Party manifesto – and trade unions are now wondering ...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS Executive Mayor John Biggs’s failure to provide an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) of the new pay package and terms and conditions changes known as “Tower Rewards” to unions or the press. The concern now is that Labour Councillors, ...

Under the Executive Mayor system, councillors have little formal power in the Council. The Executive Mayor takes almost all the decisions. However, councillors are able to lobby the Mayor, and the Executive Mayor is more likely to listen to them ...

WHAT IS Boris up to now? He announced last week that the Department for International Development (DFID) is to be swallowed up in a mgerger with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Boris was supposed to be spending the week ...