Politics

East London News: The shadow of George Galloway’s by-election victory in Bradford West is hanging over the Weavers by-election in Tower Hamlets.

Reaction to Galloway’s election from Toby Perkins, Labour MP for Chesterfield Appearing on Sky News immediately after the declaration of the vote, Toby Perkins MP was asked what had gone wrong for the Labour Party.  He replied that the people ...

Speaking to Sky News immediately after the declaration of the result, George Galloway MP confirmed that he had secured a majority of over 10,000 votes.  He was asked to explain what he meant in his victory speech by referring to ...

George Galloway has done it again. The man who beat Oona King in Bethnal Green at the 2005 General Election has won a spectacular by-election victory

  To sign this petition, visit http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29410.  From the London Guantánamo Campaign: 14th February marked the tenth anniversary of the detention without charge or trial of Shaker Aamer, the last Londoner held in Guantánamo Bay. To mark this anniversary, Shaker’s ...

ELN: The surprise news that Labour councillor Anna Lynch has resigned her seat in Weavers ward leaves Tower Hamlets

There was a time when Mayor Lutfur Rahman was painted as a young firebrand. At Cabinet on 14th March, Lutfur deployed a new tool in his armoury. No one saw it coming but, put simply, he

As predicted in ELN, Tower Hamlets Council has called a by-election

ELN: Ousted Labour councillor Michael Keith was snapped out and about in Tower Hamlets on Saturday, 3rd March – fuelling speculation

Tower Hamlets Council models itself on the Mother of Parliaments.