The disgraced former mayor of Tower Hamlets is making a political comeback with the support of a former councilor who was in prison for housing fraud amid new allegations of dirty tricks in the neighborhood.
Lutfur Rahman, who became the first directly elected mayor of the London borough in 2010, was banned from politics for five years after having to carry out corrupt and illegal practices by an electoral court in 2015.
Richard Morrie, the election commissioner, said Rahman “drove a coach and horses through the election law and didn’t care” and ran a “ruthless and dishonest campaign” to convince the electorate that Labor candidate John Biggs was a racist . Biggs eventually replaced him the following year and competed against Rahman on Thursday.
Rahman, 56, has
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