Politics

IN A TRIBUTE TO the direct action of the suffragettes, Tower Hamlets Save Our Nurseries campaigners pressed their cause with John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, on one of his first engagements outside the Town Hall since he was ...

JOHN BIGGS has shocked voters across Tower Hamlets – as one of his first acts after the election was to hand pay rises to councillors taking the top positions in his Administration. John Biggs was declared Mayor after second preference ...

JEREMY CORBYN has issued a message to mark the beginning of Ramadan. Corbyn has a lifelong record of standing with and standing up for the ordinary people who are oppressed by the powerful – on grounds of race, religion or ...

THE GOVERNMENT announced on Friday morning that it will respond to the growing need for school places in England and Wales by allowing a limited expansion of grammar schools and faith schools. The Conservative Party has long regarded itself as ...

TWO MAJOR UK supermarkets – ASDA and Sainsbury’s – have agreed terms for a merger in which the two supermarkets will continue as separate outlets but will share a management structure. Should East Londoners be cheering – or crying with ...

HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has resigned – after Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party called on her to go. Rudd had denied knowing that the Home Office set targets for how many people should be deported – a strategy which may have led ...

THE GOVERNMENT has suffered a defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill – the legislation which will make Brexit happen. It happened in the House of Lords, which voted on the issue of whether the UK should negotiate a UK/EU customs ...

NO SOONER had the Chancellor given a glowing account of the economy in his Spring statement than Toys R Us announced it was going into administration with the loss of 3,000 jobs. Since then there have been further announcements of ...

CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond will be delighted with the news that unemployment for the last quarter fell by 16,000 to 1.42 million. The unemployment rate is now 4.2% – the lowest since May 1975 – and the number of people in ...

EACH SPRING we have the competition to hear the first cuckoo of Spring – but when it’s an election year we have a parallel hunt for the first sighting of former Labour Councillor and Leader of the Council Michael Keith. ...