Tower Hamlets Labour calls on the Chancellor to support local businesses this Small Business Saturday
Today on Small Business Saturday Tower Hamlets Labour visited small businesses across Tower Hamlets and asked small business owners to co-sign the Labour Group’s letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer requesting further support for small businesses in this time of economic uncertainty. According to the Federation of Small Businesses, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) […]
£204,850,000 to be lost in disposable income across Tower Hamlets over next two years
Families across Tower Hamlets are set to feel much poorer over the next two years as the Conservatives’ Autumn Statement make the cost of living crisis feel even worse. Research from the Resolution Foundation, published following the Autumn Statement, revealed the average household is set to see real disposable income fall by £1,700 over the […]
Tower Hamlets Labour’s ‘Save Our Bus Routes’ Campaign a Success for Local Residents as Bus Routes D7 and D3 Saved
The Tower Hamlets Labour Campaign to ‘Save Our Bus Routes’ in Tower Hamlets has resulted in a big success for local residents as the Mayor of London has today announced that local bus Routes D3 and D7 will not close. The campaign to ‘Save the Bus Routes’ was headed by Tower Hamlets Labour after Cllr […]
Tower Hamlets Labour pushes Mayor Rahman to Save Our School Streets
Cllr Sirajul Islam, Leader of the Tower Hamlets Labour Group and Cllr Asma Begum, Ward Councillor for Bow West and Shadow Cabinet Member for the Environment and the Climate Emergency have today written to the Mayor of Tower Hamlets to demand he listen to the local community and reverse his decision to close the school […]
Tower Hamlets Labour call on Mayor Rahman to reverse the Closure of Chisenhale School Street
Tower Hamlets Labour has called on the Mayor of Tower Hamlets to reverse his decision to remove the School Street at Chisenhale Primary School in Bow West, which goes against the wishes of the local community and the Aspire administration’s own commitment to improve air quality in the borough. Tower Hamlets has one of the […]
Tower Hamlets Labour and Unmesh Desai AM present petition to London Deputy Mayor to Save Tower Hamlets Bus Routes
Members of the Tower Hamlets Labour Group and Unmesh Desai AM, Labour London Assembly Member for City and East, today presented a petition on preventing proposed cuts to local bus routes in Tower Hamlets to Seb Dance, the Deputy Mayor of London for Transport at the Transport for London Headquarters in Southwark. Hundreds of local […]
Tower Hamlets Labour tells Chancellor – Don’t take it out on Tower Hamlets
Leader of the Tower Hamlets Labour Group, Cllr Sirajul Islam has today written to the new Chancellor to stand up for residents in Tower Hamlets – and insist our community shouldn’t pay the price for the economic crisis made in Downing Street. On Monday 17th October, the fourth Chancellor in four months, Jeremy Hunt announced plans to cut […]
Tower Hamlets Labour calls on the Speaker of the Council to allow more scrutiny on the Mayor
The Leader of the Tower Hamlets Labour Group, Cllr Sirajul Islam has today written to Cllr Shafi Ahmed, the Speaker of Tower Hamlets Council to express his concern at the conduct of the Aspire Group in the last two meetings of the Full Council where questions submitted from members of the Opposition have not been […]
23,263 in Tower Hamlets face £960 higher mortgages thanks to Conservative Budget chaos
New analysis from Tower Hamlets Labour reveals 23,263 homeowners in Tower Hamlets face paying an average £960 more a year on their mortgages thanks to the Conservatives’ mini budget. That’s a combined total of £22,332,480. The BBC have reported that the average mortgage payer faces a ‘Kwarteng Premium’ of £960 on their mortgage as a […]
Mayor Rahman votes down Tower Hamlets Labour’s support for Small Businesses
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman and his colleagues in the Aspire Group yesterday voted against a Tower Hamlets Labour motion which pressed for immediate support to help the borough’s small businesses in the face of the Energy Bill Crisis. In a meeting of Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday 5th October, the Aspire Group […]
