Politics

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.

London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone spent a day in Tower Hamlets on 23rd January meeting

Colin Barrow, the embattled Leader of Westminster City Council, finally bowed to the inevitable by

James Frankcom: As the rumours surrounding the position of Tower Hamlets Councillor Shelina Akhtar circulate, East London News has spoken exclusively with Cllr Shelina Akhtar herself. Cllr Akhtar explained that legal advice has prevented her from countering the negative presumptions ...