British Politics

TOWER HAMLETS Mums and Save Our Nurseries campaigners were out in force across the borough again this weekend – and again found that the public were alarmed to hear that the Council is prioritising closure of its day care nurseries. ...

MUMS WHO ARE campaigning to save Tower Hamlets’ last three remaining Council day care nurseries from closure were delighted to receive a warm welcome in Roman Road market on Saturday, 11th August. The Council is currently running a public consultation ...

IN AN ISLAMOPHOBIC outburst, former Foreign Secretary Tory MP Boris Johnson has made fun of the burqa. Writing in his weekly newspaper column, Johnson said that women who wear traditional Islamic garments – burqas and niqabs – look like bank ...

FORMER COUNCILLOR Abjol Miah has issued the following statement to explain why he is joining the Liberal Democrat Party. After consulting community members, supporters and family members I have, for the first time, decided to move on from fractious independents to ...

CRASH! Late last night – Saturday, 14th July – the news broke. Abjol Miah has joined the Liberal-Democrats! This is Bastille Day – the day, in 1789, when the people stormed the Bastille prison, attempting to release political prisoners. This ...

HACKNEY’S MAYOR Philip Glanville took a step forward in tackling the borough’s 13,000-strong housing waiting list last week – as the Planning Committee approved plans to build new homes in Clapton. It’s a small development of just eleven homes, but ...

LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn led the way for Labour yesterday with a succinct tweet praising both England manager Gareth Southgate and the team’s players for their performance in the Football World Cup. The same excitement came from London Mayor Sadiq ...

JOHN BIGGS HAS backed down in the face of a campaign by Unite the Union and agreed that young people working in Council leisure facilities run by GLL should receive he full London Living Wage (LLL) – but he hasn’t ...

WORRIED MOTHERS are asking where the Council consultation on closure of the Local Authority Day Nurseries (LADN) is – not least because the Cabinet report proposed to begin formal closure in “late July 2018”. “We’ve had a week already,” said ...

THEY MAY HAVE come out in their  thousands to vote for him in two months ago – 44,865 of them, up from just 32,754 in 2015 – but Tower Hamlets voters were not coming out to Executive Mayor John Biggs’s Ask ...