Tower Hamlets: a very British coup
Anyone living in Tower Hamlets is used to the east London borough being at the centre of political storms.
From the fight against the fascist National Front in the 1970s, through the Wapping printers’ strikes and dock strikes in the 1980s, the battle against the Nazi British National Party (BNP) in the 1990s, to the electoral success of the Respect Coalition in the wake of the anti-war movement, it is not a place where you expect a quiet political life.