Thursday 29 April 2010

Tower Hamlets

Jerome Taylor, Independent, Respect, Religion, Race and the battle for Tower Hamlets, 28 Apr 2010 "... Respect's best chance of holding on to a parliamentary seat rests in Bethnal Green and Bow, where Abjol Miah, a youth worker and local councillor with strong ties to east London's mosque network, is taking on Labour's Rushanara Ali in a contest that will finally provide British Bengalis with a representative in Parliament (Bangladeshis remain one of the only significant ethnic communities without an MP). "