Labour candidate John Biggs has won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election. He beat the corrupt ex-mayor Lutfur Rahman-backed candidate Rabina Khan into second place. Biggs was defeated by Rahman in the 2014 mayoral election in the borough, but the result was
TOWER HAMLETS, London, United Kingdom – Riot vans cruise menacingly through the streets and uniformed officers guard the entrances to polling booths. These are familiar sights at elections in any politically turbulent third world country, but they were quite alien
One of the four petitioners whose legal action toppled Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has accused the Metropolitan police of corruption. Andy Erlam told BBC Radio 4 that the police seemed at times to be protecting Mr Rahman. He has
The High Court has been presented with expert evidence suggesting one in four postal ballots cast in the re-election of Mayor Lutfur Rahman in one ward in Tower Hamlets were completed by the same person. Robert Radley, senior consultant at
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman is in court today on the second day of a challenge to his election. Four petitioners are claiming widespread electoral fraud and intimidation of the Muslim community in the borough. The petitioners claim