Sentences with phrase «hamlets mayor»

At a rally packed with his supporters, former Tower Hamlets mayor Luftur Rahman has named the current cabinet member for housing Rabina Khan as the next mayoral candidate for his party.

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Three weeks ago I announced my intention to run as an independent candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets.

The same year he was selected as the Labour candidate to stand as the directed elected mayor of Tower Hamlets before being removed by the party's NEC.

Pretty much all the left press other than Solidarity [Workers Liberty's paper] has denounced the election court decision against Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in East London, and most of the left has backed Rabina Khan, Rahman's ally, for the new mayoral election on 11 June.

Elections are also taking place for directly - elected mayors in Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Watford and Sheffield.

The Bangladeshi mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, is accused of more than doubling the recommended level of funding for Bengali - run charities.

Tower Hamlets council has welcomed Scotland Yard's decision to halt the investigation into allegations against their elected mayor.

Bangladesh - born Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in east London, will face no further action from the Metropolitan Police «at this stage».

Tower Hamlets was placed into special measures in 2015 after the former mayor Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of electoral fraud.

There are many more Labour councillors who will want to work with the mayor of Tower Hamlets and serve the community of Tower Hamlets.

BBC London has caught him on camera campaigning for Lutfur Rahman, the independent candidate who is running for mayor of Tower Hamlets.

A timetable for selecting a Labour candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets in May 2014 was agreed by the organisation committee, where discussion centred on the last - minute exclusion of Lutfur Rahman in September 2010 and his subsequent victory as an independent.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

That is why this centre is needed and that is why our partnership with the mayor of Tower Hamlets and Barclays Bank will provide a vital resource to the local communities.»

All this, plus an exclusive interview with Lutfur Rahman, the controversial mayor of Tower Hamlets, Laurie Penny on the students» protest and our selection of the best books of 2010, including contributions from Ed Miliband, Bianca Jagger and Alain de Botton.

In addition to a fresh batch of councillors, Londoners will also go to the polls for new directly elected mayors in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Hackney — all four of which are currently in Labour hands.

All four mayoral elections returned the incumbent mayors: 3 Labour and 1 Tower Hamlets First.

In September 2010, Rahman was selected [13] by the Tower Hamlets Labour Party as its candidate to be the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets.

The electorates of Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets also elected their executive mayors, who operate in place of council leaders in those boroughs.

Labour sources are growing increasingly concerned at the Tower Hamlets» count for mayor where they are trying to unseat the independent incumbent, Lutfur Rahman.

The Clintons live in the Westchester County hamlet of Chappaqua, but state law requires only that a candidate for mayor be a New York City resident by Election Day, a spokesman for the State Board of Elections said.

Areas currently electing a mayor are Bedford, Bristol, Doncaster, Hackney, Lewisham, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Mansfield, Middlesbrough, Newham, North Tyneside, Salford, Torbay, Tower Hamlets and Watford.

Labour's John Biggs has been elected mayor of Tower Hamlets borough in east London to replace Lutfur Rahman, who was removed from office for «corrupt and illegal practices» in April.

Labour mayors were elected in Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets - while in Watford, the Lib Dem candidate was elected.

It would help to understand what happened in Tower Hamlets last year, when the Labour party collapsed in on itself over the selection of Lutfur Rahman as candidate for mayor.

Rahman, who defeated official Labour candidate Helal Abbas in last month's election to become directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, has asked Livingstone to broker his return to the Labour fold.

by Jessica Asato It is clear that, despite trying to arm - twist some quite senior members of the Labour party into allowing Lutfur Rahman back into the fold, Ken Livingstone has failed the new mayor of Tower Hamlets for the time being.

Carrying this tradition forward will land Salt Lake County's quadruped mayors among the renowned pet mayoral ranks of the greats like Lucy Lou, the dog mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and feline Mayor Stubbs, actual mayor of his nine - hundred person hamlet in Talkeetna, Alaska for fifteen years running.

«While we understand the financial pressures that Tower Hamlets faces, we feel that the mayor's proposal goes against the spirit of Henry Moore's original sale to London County Council at a favourable price on the understanding that it would be placed in East London,» they said.

A Henry Moore sculpture which was the focus of a dispute when Tower Hamlets» former mayor wanted to sell it is to return to the capital after 20 years.

Lutfur Rahman, the former mayor of Tower Hamlets and a solicitor, is to appear before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has confirmed.

She was heavily involved in the case before the election commissioner to overturn the result of the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets in May 2014, including the enforcement of costs orders and resistance to an application by the ousted mayor for judicial review.