Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the mayoral campaign explaining that standing for election as Mayor of Tower Hamlets is a big step for her – but it could be a step forward for women across ...

While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...

They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...

The first quarter of 2015 saw 40,000 new homes being registered in the UK, according to figures collected by the NHBC. Unfortunately, only 5,622 of these were in London and, across the whole of the UK, only 9,735 were public ...

  [Adverts] An interesting night.  Jim Fitzpatrick looked forward to fighting the mayoral campaign with John Biggs.  Rushanara Ali welcomed the election of Naz Shah in Bradford West (though that does not appear to have been formally declared) and Rupa ...

New arrangements for applying for places in community and school-linked nurseries have been operating this year in Tower Hamlets. Parents have had a common application form, with one closing date – and the Council expects to send out letters to ...

Are we on the brink of another Labour upset? Three weeks ago it seemed self-evident that the borough’s sitting Labour MPs would walk through to victory at the General Election. That was before the election court verdict in the case ...

There were smirks from the Tory benches at the last meeting of the Council as Labour Group Leader Cllr Rachael Saunders referred to Rushnara Ali as the local “MP”, who was working for her “constituents”. It had to be pointed ...

The news that Cllr Rabina Khan will stand in the mayoral election on 11th June, announced at last Thursday’s rally at the Waterlilly, will come as a delight to many voters in Tower Hamlets. As Cabinet Member for Housing (and, ...

London Labour Party officials have given losing mayoral candidate John Biggs a chance to make it “fourth time lucky” by announcing that he will be the Party’s candidate in the re-run election for Tower Hamlets Mayor, to be held on ...