Westminster

The Lutfur Link – Part 2

Remember this post?

It shows Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman and some of his associates being lavished with praise by city Labour politicians for helping with the election campaign in May.

They included Leicester East MP Keith Vaz, Jon Ashworth, who later that day was declared the new Leicester South MP, and Sir Peter Soulsby who was later voted in as elected mayor. Several of Labour’s city councillors are in attendance.

When I first highlighted this video in the summer I had to dance around Mr Rahman’s background.

I can be slightly more blunt this morning. The PCC has ruled that describing him as an “extremist-backed” politician, with “close links” to an extremist Islamic organisation, is “not misleading”. He denies the links.

Ask your local Labour politician whether they were aware of these claims when he joined them on the campaign trail…

A short adjournment

An email has just landed in my inbox via the servers of the Parliamentary Estate:

“I am an avid reader of your blog, as I am sure many others are also. You really do have plenty of people guessing at some of your sources…”

Flattering, but unfortunately things will be quiet around here for the next five days. I’m out of Leicester for a few days, and I’ll be back on Wednesday.