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 ...

JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...

CAMPAIGNERS FROM Save Our Nurseries tried to find a crumb of comfort in their campaign this weekend – by taking a giant cake to an event where John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, was due to speak. The campaigners ...

“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s going ...

IN A TRIBUTE TO the direct action of the suffragettes, Tower Hamlets Save Our Nurseries campaigners pressed their cause with John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, on one of his first engagements outside the Town Hall since he was ...

EACH SPRING we have the competition to hear the first cuckoo of Spring – but when it’s an election year we have a parallel hunt for the first sighting of former Labour Councillor and Leader of the Council Michael Keith. ...

ONCE EVERY FOUR YEARS, April becomes not just the month that begins with April Fool’s Day, but carries on as April Fool’s Month. We’ve already seen the traditional seasonal attacks on Jeremy Corbyn – now here come the allegations of ...

IT’S JUST OVER A YEAR since residents on the Isle of Dogs asked John Biggs to invite Sadiq Khan down to the area to discuss local planning policy. Like the characters in Samuel Beckett’s play, they are still “waiting for ...

LAST WEEK WE reported that a large part of the Labour Party Manifesto had been revealed to the world by Young Fabian Adam Allnutt – who had singled out a couple of dozen pledges which he particularly enjoyed. For the ...

SINCE REGISTERING as a political party, the People’s Alliance of Tower Hamlets (PATH) has been explaining how it would go about delivering some of its key policies in the long list of issues that need addressing in the borough. PATH is ...