Lutfur Rahman with Keith Vaz, Jon Ashworth and Sir Peter Soulsby
Thursday, April 23, 2015
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BBC News reports:
An east London mayor has been removed from office and a poll declared void after he was found guilty of electoral fraud.
An Election Commissioner concluded Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman breached election rules and must vacate his post immediately.You can read Richard Mawrey's full judgment on Trial by Jeory.
In 2010 Rahman was chosen to be the Labour candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets, but was deselected shortly afterwards amid concerns about the selection process and his alleged links with extremist groups.
In November 2010 he stood against the official Labour candidate as an independent and won the election.
Which made it odd that he travelled to Leicester the following year as an honoured guest of the city's Labour bigwigs. His visit came as the city was facing council elections, its first mayoral election and a parliamentary by-election in the Leicester South constituency.
I blogged about this visit at the time, linking to a video of it on a blog written by David Maclean, then the Leicester Mercury's political correspondent.
That blog has vanished, taking the video with it, but today I found this report of the event from Channel S, an Asian news station.
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