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There is a huge opportunity now to move Tower Hamlets forward. The election, on the 11th June, for a new mayor, has been called because Lutfur Rahman was removed from office by an election court. The rot was exposed in Tower Hamlets when George Galloway became the...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and while many of us were far from optimistic ahead of last week’s election, few would have predicted such a resounding defeat. But why didn’t we see this disaster coming? Well, the truth is, we did. We just forgot about it. We all...

This year’s election pitched Scotland against the rest of the country, north against south, Liberal Democrat versus Tory seats against Liberal Democrat versus Labour seats, and London against the rest of England to mention only a few. Perhaps most ominously, it...

My first thoughts after Thursday’s results were with all Labour’s fantastic candidates who were standing up on stages across the country as their results were read out but going the wrong way: the likes of Will Martindale, Uma Kumaran and Luke Pollard would have made...