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Rahman gets the gang back together

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Earlier this month Steerpike revealed that Lutfur Rahman has returned to the frontline of Tower Hamlets politics, six years after becoming the first directly elected British mayor to be removed for electoral fraud. Now it appears another old face has re-emerged to join Rahman in his bid to save the Tower Hamlets mayoralty, ahead of a rumoured run for the position next year.

An image of Baroness Uddin is splashed on a new ‘Yes for Mayor: Power to the People’ leaflet currently being circulated in Tower Hamlets, extolling the virtues of the current council system which could be abolished in May’s referendum. Billing herself as a ‘life peer and former deputy leader of the council’ alongside a grinning picture of Rahman, Uddin says that the ‘Mayor will be decisive and effective’ and that that the existing process ‘has inspired greater voter engagement’. She adds that it has helped to ‘encourage a new generation to seek public office’ and that ‘with a diverse team and effective leadership, the Mayor can be a decisive force in shaping a cohesive local community’ – a bold claim given the borough’s well-documented issues with corruption.

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