Politics

East London MP Diane Abbott MP led the condemnations of the Government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy, published today, dismissing it as a missed opportunity. The Strategy is one of the first pieces of Government domestic policy published by new Prime Minister ...

Questions were being asked about Owen Smith’s consistency as a Facebook post by Areeq Chowdhury detailed a meeting between the East London accountant and the rebel Labour MP who is trying to remove Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour ...

The five Labour Party members who began a legal action against the Labour Party over their election procedures have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court. They have issued a statement confirming that the costs of further legal action ...

David “Baron” Blunkett is up to something – and he’s up to it with Brenda “Baroness” Dean. It could be not so much another outing for the Barron Knights as a case of the Barren Fights – but it could ...

Last week the Court of Appeal backed Labour’s NEC’s right to set voting conditions which can be seen to favour one of the two candidates – a move which has saddened the local Momentum group. The five had originally launched ...

New Home Secretary Amber Rudd MP has appointed a new Chair of the national inquiry into sexual abuse of children in England and Wales. She has chosen Professor Alexis Jay – who was in charge of the inquiry into abuse ...

Murdered MP Jo Cox, who lived in Tower Hamlets, was honoured at the LiFe 2016 festival in Lincolnshire, where she posthumously received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Before she entered Parliament, Jo had worked for charities including NSPCC, Save the Children ...

Jeremy Corbyn is picking up the lion’s share of endorsements from local Labour Parties as he continue with his second leadership contest in two years. Constituency Labour Parties have been meeting over the last couple of weeks to make supporting ...

The Labour Party in Tower Hamlets was in two minds last Thursday (28th July) as the two Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) nominated different candidates in the Labour Party leadership contest. Poplar and Limehouse CLP nominated Jeremy Corbyn by a narrow ...

Jim Fitzpatrick may be out of step with his Party’s choice of Leader, but he is remarkably in tune with other MPs on the question of physiotherapy provision for people with muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy UK, a charity which provides ...