Read our privacy notice. China's plans to build a huge embassy in Tower Hamlets have sparked a new row after the Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary intervened in the deeply controversial proposal.

Proposals were previously rejected by Tower Hamlets council but have now been re-submitted and will be considered by Labour housing chief Angela Rayner. There are fears the application could now ...

When Mr Rahman, a former solicitor, was re-elected the independent mayor of Tower Hamlets in May 2022 it was a comeback that the political establishment dreaded. Sensationally forced out of ...