Politics

LONDON HAS returned a swathe of Labour MPs – with all the seats in East London staying red. Bethnal Green & Bow (Tower Hamlets) saw a high turnout by local standards, with Rushanara Ali netting an enormous 42,969 votes. The Tories ...

CLLR OLIUR RAHMAN entered the political field in Tower Hamlets as long ago as 2004 – since when, he told a press conference on 31st May, he’s been batting for the community. Fellow councillors lined up to give witness that ...

JEREMY CORBYN has announced that he will be appearing in person on the TV General Election debate to be held this evening. Corbyn had initially indicated that he would not appear on the TV debates, as Theresa May had refused ...

THE GENERAL ELECTION is becoming ever closer – according to most of the opinion polls. But opinion polls aren’t always right – what else can we use to test the parties’ popularity with the punters. In terms of national party ...

IT SEEMS THAT one disgruntled Tube traveller has taken matters into their own hands and balanced out a train advertisement. The original advertisement was for The Telegraph, and offered a free trial of the newspaper for 30 days. It pointed ...

AS YOU MAY have heard, polling day is 8th June! This may seem a long way away, but there’s only ten days to go. Now the Stun Your Gran Facebook page is having a drive to remind voters – particularly ...

SHADOW HOME SECRETARY Diane Abbott has backed Labour’s plans to increase frontline staff to make communities safer while also defending democratic rights and civil liberties. Diane Abbott has represented the north of Hackney in the House of Commons since 1987 – ...

HARD WORKING Labour leaders are not having Sunday off. The Party has today released plans to make the streets safer – by getting more police and security staff into frontline posts. Labour’s plans would restore many of the public sector ...

COUNCIL, housing association and private renters joined trade unions, as well as homeless and community campaigns, in Parliament Square on 25th May. Campaigners hoped to encourage political parties and candidates to make housing a major issue in the General Election. ...

Sebastian Pender Leaning casually against a squat rack, professional fighter Pablo Benn shakes his head before telling me that the “Conservatives had their chance and they messed up. They’ve been messing up for years now. It’s lies, it’s all based ...