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Executive editor and news editor quit paper in storm over election smears

By Mark Pack | Tue 19th October 2010 - 11:41 pm

Trial by Jeory has the story from the contest to be Mayor of Tower Hamlets:

Lutfur Rahman’s campaign does seem to have galvanised a section of the Tower Hamlets community and many, if not most, are certainly very angry young people who are fuelled by a fair degree of hatred.

That bitterness has been targeted in almost equal measure at the Labour NEC and the party’s official candidate, Helal Abbas … There are many in the Labour party who believe the level of vitriol is similar to that experienced by Oona King in 2005 when she was beaten by Respect and

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Posted in News | Also tagged andrew gilligan, emdad rahman, forhad hussain, john griffiths and tower hamlets | 2 Comments

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