It was close – but not that close. Labour told us the electors had had enough of Lutfur Rahman – hated him; saw him as corrupt and divisive; would stand it no longer. How wrong they were.  Although 27,643 people ...

Reetendra BANERJI (Lib Dem) 1959 John BIGGS (Labour) 27,643 (1st preference), 6,500 (2nd preference) = 34,143 Reza CHOUDHURY (Independent) 205 Hafiz KADIR (Independent) 162 Mohammed KHAN (Independent) 164 Nicholas MCQUEEN (UKIP) 4,819 Hugo PIERRE (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition) 871 Lutfur ...

The problem with the view of the count from the press pen in the gallery is that you can’t read what people are thinking from the tops of their heads.                     ...

23.00  The latest rumours are, again, that Lutfur has won on the first round. Nothing official has been announced: why won’t they tell us what is going on?  We need to get a mayor in post to sort this borough’s ...

“The quiet man is here to stay, and he’s turning up the volume,” said Iain Duncan Smith – kick-starting the steady slide down towards losing the election for Tory Party Leader. For his look-a-like John Biggs, Labour’s candidate for Mayor, ...

The above photograph shows the man who is alleged to have been verbally abusive towards women who were canvassing in the Chrisp Street area on 18th May.  The man was canvassing for support for the Labour Party’s John Biggs; the women were ...

ELN has long argued that the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets should be decided by policy differences: let’s look at how the two candidates shape up on housing policy. Rahman makes it clear his priority is supply. That’s a sensible ...

Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...

Harry Palmer looks at the aftermath of the Panorama programme. The Metropolitan police have found no credible evidence of fraud in John Ware’s Panorama dossier on Lutfur Rahman. They have made it quite clear that if the audit currently being ...

On Wednesday evening last week, Tower Hamlets First put out a press release stating that Professor Michael Keith, former leader of the Council, had written a document in 1995 in which he claimed John Biggs had written material which was ...