A former east London mayor who was forced to step down and banned from standing for five years has re-emerged to take the top job again
Lutfur Rahman will be the new mayor of Tower Hamlets - seven years after he was forced to step down from the job.
Lutfur Rahman was removed as mayor of Tower Hamlets in 2015 after an election court found him guilty of corrupt and illegal practices, although he faced no criminal proceedings.His 40,804 votes beat the 33,487 won by his nearest challenger, Labour's John Biggs, who had been in the post since 2015. Mr Rahman, standing for the Aspire party, claimed he had"a bigger mandate than I had in 2014 or in 2010" and pledged to"rebuild" the borough.He said:"I want to rebuild Tower Hamlets, I want to invest in our future, and give our people a better future than we had in the last seven years.
"Judge me and my administration on our record, what we've delivered in the first term - the only borough in the country to have free homecare, we delivered the London living wage - the first in London, we delivered the university bursary, educational maintenance allowance.
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