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London mayor hardens criticism of way cuts will be rolled out, putting him at odds with Tory leadership rival George Osborne Boris Johnson used his speech at the Conservative party conference to call for greater protection for the lowest earners in a veiled warning to George Boris Johnson has hardened his criticism of the way the Conservative government is cutting ...

It feels like mere days since it began, and yet the latest series of The Great British Bake Off is about to draw to a close – it feels like we’ve gorged on an entire cake and realised there’s only one slice left: very sad, and a little bit ill. It’s been another series of baking triumphs, disasters, and dramas ...

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has completed his first 100 days in office, with a mayoralty which has seen a drive towards openness and accountability. Speaking at a briefing at the town hall today (October 1), the Mayor confirmed his commitment to creating a council that is open and transparent, as well as one that provides excellent services. ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: UK visiting General Secretary of Awami League and Public Administration Minister of Bangladesh, Syed Ashraful Islam has said that minister of Bangladeshi origin in the UK is now matter of time.  There will be a time soon, when there will be a minister of Bangladesh origin in UK government. Syed Ashraf told this in a felicitation ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: The general reaction in east London to last weekend’s attack on the Cereal Killer Café by anti-gentrification protesters has been neither anger nor approval, but bafflement. “Everyone agreed it was the wrong target,” said William Exley, who works in a shop in Boxpark, a pop-up shopping mall that fits well in trendy Shoreditch. “I don’t think ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Election of three Bangladeshi MPs in British Parliament has been seen has a huge success in the annual conference really of Labour Friends of Bangladesh, where the participants also expressed of their hope of electing many more Bangladeshi MPs in future. Along with many members of Labour Friends of Bangladesh, senior leaders of Labour part were ...

Bangla Mirror Desk Sadiq Khan, Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London, on Wednesday pledged to turn next May’s battle for City Hall into “a referendum on London’s housing crisis”. On the final day of Labour’s conference in Brighton, Sadiq Khan said the housing crisis is “the greatest challenge facing our city that now affects all Londoners, regardless of age or ...

Jeremy Corbyn has told British voters they don’t have to accept that inequality and injustice are inevitable – and things “can and must change”. In his first conference speech after becoming Labour leader, Mr Corbyn vowed to create a “kinder politics, a more caring society”. But he also attacked David Cameron’s “shocking broken promises” and said Labour would “challenge austerity”. ...

Jeremy Corbyn has avoided a showdown over his support for scrapping Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons at the Labour conference in Brighton. The highly anticipated vote had been expected to take place on Wednesday. But the motion failed to get the support it needed from activists in a ballot selecting the issues to be debated this week in Brighton. Mr Corbyn ...

Tulip Siddiq, niece of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh has been made state minister for culture, media and sports in Labour Party shadow cabinet. Newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbin included Bangladesh-origin British MP Tulip as a junior member in the cabinet. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special assistant Mahbubul Haque Shakil confirmed the matter to media. In a ...