IT IS 26 YEARS since Labour ended eight years of Liberal Democrat rule in Tower Hamlets – gaining 43 seats and leaving the opposition with just seven. Three of the seats were particularly welcome: those in the Millwall ward of the Isle of Dogs. Labour candidates unseated Dereck Beackon, the first BNP Councillor to be elected in the UK, and blocked his two fellow candidates from winning seats alongside him. Watch a 20:20 Vision special – an eyewitness discussion of that experience between Jenny Fisher of East London News, Labour’s 1994 election organiser in Millwall, and Martin Young, one of the winning Labour candidates, on Vodcasts: The 1994 election: How we drove the BNP off the Isle of Dogs
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