Politics

During the referendum campaign, the “leave” side promised that the £350 million per week savings they calculated the UK could make from leaving the EU should be spent on the NHS. By the early morning of the day after the ...

Tower Hamlets residents are to fall victim to even more Tory austerity sanctioned by Labour Mayor John Biggs, this time as he passes on 100% of government cuts to health services. In a low profile Public Health mini-budget, Mayor Biggs ...

Many eyebrows were raised when Labour’s John Biggs became mayor of Tower Hamlets but then refused to resign as a member of the London Assembly. Each position was a full-time job, and holding two full time jobs at the same ...

The All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Responsibility Group (APCRG) last week announced the companies shortlisted for its 2016 National Responsible Business Champion award. And Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar & Limehouse, was delighted that his nomination – of the Canary Wharf ...

Hackney North MP Diane Abbott spoke up in favour of the effectiveness of UK aid on Monday. She told the House of Commons: “I saw evidence of the drought that is sweeping across eastern and southern Africa. Anyone who says ...

UK politicians came up with a variety of responses to the Orlando hate-killings. They all expressed shock and extended sympathy to those directly affected. Only some went further and spoke out against the hate crime and expressed solidarity with the ...

Marie Curie, a charity which supports people with a terminal illness, has released a new report on the discrimination which Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) people face at the end of their lives. Too often they cannot be open ...

President Obama has confirmed that there is no evidence that Omar Mateen, who murdered 49 people in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub two nights ago, was on an IS/Daesh mission. While Mateen did pledge loyalty to IS/Daesh shortly before or during the ...

Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick chose Carers Week 2016 to pledge his support for Carer Friendly Communities in his constituency, Poplar and Limehouse (in Tower Hamlets). Jim pointed out that “there are 6.5 million people in the UK who care for ...

All twenty-two Councils in Wales promised to accept refugees from war-torn Syria – but new Home Office figures show that only five (less than a quarter) have done so. The news has disappointed charities working with refugees. Carys Mair Thomas, ...