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Bangla Mirror Desk: Youth leader and social worker Abu Talha has submitted his candidacy as an independent candidate from Stepny ward which became vacant after a high court ruling. His nomination was endorsed by the team of former Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutufr Rahman. Councillor Oliur Rahman and former Councillor of Stepny Alibor Chowdhury declared their support towards him. Abu ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: A list of “very, highly or extremely controversial” potential cuts to benefitshave been drawn up by civil servants in response to warnings that the nextgovernment would struggle to keep welfare spending below a legal cap ofabout £120bn a year.The cuts proposed by officials at the Department for Work and Pensionsinclude abolishing statutory maternity pay and barring under-25s ...

On a walkabout in the heart of her East London constituency barely three days before May 7 vote, Rushanara Ali confidence. A third of the roughly 80,000 electorate are fellow Bangladeshis. And anyone in the know of things feels she is all set to return to ‘the mother of parliament’ for another five years. Speaking in both English and Sylheti ...

Labour supporters have condemned Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party after claims that their candidate for Ealing Central and Acton, Rupa Huq, was manhandled by a Tory activist, according to British newspaper The Independent. Rupa, who was born to Bangladeshi parents at Queen Charlotte’s in Hammersmith in 1972, is a senior lecturer in the Sociology and Criminology Department at Kingston ...

Family members have arrived at Kensington Palace to visit the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s new baby daughter. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are at the palace. Earlier, the Duchess of Cambridge’s mother, Carole Middleton, and her sister Pippa also arrived to meet their newest relative. The name of the duke and duchess’s second child – sister ...

The leaders of the UK’s main political parties are using the last weekend of the election campaign to try to win over wavering voters. David Cameron urged people to choose their “preferred PM” rather than vote tactically for the Lib Dems or UKIP. Labour leader Ed Miliband said the election was a clash of two visions “about how our country ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : With the 2014 election declared void, Tower Hamlets is  of the east London borough in 2014 was declared ‘void’ by Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey, who sat as a judge in the special High Court hearing. At the special High Court hearing, Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey also ordered Mr Rahman to pay £250,000 in costs. One of ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:  The London Labour Party has announced that John Biggs has been selected as Labour’s candidate for the re-run mayoral election in Tower Hamlets on 11 June.  John Biggs said:  “I am delighted to have been confirmed as Labour’s candidate.  “Tower Hamlets must now move on from the divisive politics of Lutfur Rahman and his disgraced regime of corruption ...

Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has taken a series of steps in relation to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, following last week’s Election Court judgement.  Proposed directions extend the powers of the Commissioners over the whole of the local authority, as the Commissioners see fit, in order to exercise to ensure good governance and ...

The after-shocks of last week’s election court decision are rumbling through Tower Hamlets.  There was already wide-spread anger about the decision of an unelected judge to depose a politician that 37,395 had voted for.  Now there are strong rumours that Eric Pickles (who is himself not currently an elected MP) is planning to impose direct rule on Tower Hamlets.  Glyn ...