EXC: Mayor of Hackney Philip Glanville has been suspended by Labour today after a photo of him of him partying with a paedophile former councillor emerged The photo shows Mr Glanville at a Eurovision final party with Thomas Dewey on May 14, 2022 - two weeks after Dewey was arrested in a National Crime Agency raid on his home

Electoral monitors have today warned of alleged voting irregularities in Tower Hamlets.
Monitors at polling stations had concerns over intimidating crowds, high levels of attempted family voting, and personation, where a person assumes the identity of someone else to cast a vote The report by Democracy Volunteers has put Tower Hamlets' mayor Lutfur Rahman at the centre of a fresh voting row after it highlighted “significant challenges to the electoral process” during his landslide victory in borough's elections on May 5 standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

Protesters against Tower Hamlets council adopting the full IHRA definition of anti-semitism in 2018 are addressing the meeting #LDReporter This is the second time the petition has come to the council. Protesters want ‘free speech caveats’ added to the definition