London Labour Party members in the Greater London Authority (GLA) City & East constituency have chosen Newham councillor Unmesh Desai as their candidate in next May’s elections. The decision was greeted with speculation about how many candidates will now come ...

Independent researchers interviewed residents early this year – and found that residents were very happy with the services under Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration. No council services saw a decline in ratings compared to last year’s survey, indicating that Mayor Lutfur ...

John Biggs has admitted Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s boroughwide 20mph speed limit “will improve road safety for everyone” and his Cabinet Member for the Environment has dubbed the measure “important”. The new limit was introduced after Mayor Lutfur Rahman and his ...

Mayor Lutfur Rahman made a point of standing up for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents. He was the first Mayor of Tower Hamlets to mention LGBT residents in his inauguration speech, and his Administration backed a number of ...

John Biggs, Member of the Greater London Assembly (GLA) for the City & East constituency, will be stepping down in May 2016. He has been a GLA member since 2000, and will have spent the last year of his GLA ...

John Biggs is reported to have written off a £850,000 loan made to the Rich Mix (an organisation which styles itself “East London’s independent arts venue”). Independent councillors have implemented the “call in” process which means that the decision will ...

Biggs makes first pledge to keep a key Lutfur Rahman policy. John “Two Jobs” Biggs found his luck was in last Monday when he opened the Healthy Schools and Healthy Early Years Celebration Event – held, like John Biggs’s Tower ...

•Locals may be charged up to £272 per week rent for social homes •Public money will build houses for sale in high cost area •“Fast track” planning powers could leave locals with no say John Biggs has set out his ...

Tower Hamlets Independent Councillors were stunned at last week’s Council meeting as John “Two Jobs” Biggs moved quickly to cordon off his rule as mayor of Tower Hamlets from independent scrutiny. He made sure all the top jobs were kept ...

As Michelle Obama, First Lady of the USA, and her two daughters visited Mulberry School today, John Biggs made one of his first press statements as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. John Biggs gushed: “It’s fantastic that the First Lady ...