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Tower Hamlets Council cabinet member Anwara Ali has left Labour for the Tories, saying she has become "disillusioned" with the party's NHS reform.
The Bow West councillor's defection will come as a blow to the ruling party, as the GP was lead member for health and well-being in the borough.
The Wharf visits the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is already considering the possible impact of a Tory government on the City
You don't get into power in Britain by winning an opinion poll in January.
That said, businesses are becoming aware that they might need to get to know the opposition in case there's a new landlord this summer.
Iain Duncan Smith's bid to lead the country from the inside ended with his removal from the Conservative party leadership in 2003.
The politician is now trying to influence Britain from the political fringes, at the helm of the Centre for Social Justice think-tank.
The Government is refusing to bow to pressure in bringing forward an increase in retirement age following the recession.
At the Conservative Party conference, George Osborne unveiled proposals to raise the age of state pensions for men to 66 from 2016, eight years ahead of the current Government's proposals.
MP Jim Fitzpatrick held a press conference in Canary Wharf this week to refute allegations of Islamophobia. The Wharf reports from the East Wintergarden
The press conference was for Bangladeshi media only, but a small group of politicians were outside anyway.
Some were taking pictures against the window, hands outstretched in a show of mock confusion. One pushed away the blocking arm of a man at the door, and strode into the doorway.
Despite the success of Canary Wharf, the Docklands constituency of Poplar and Canning Town has one of the worst rates of unemployment in the country.
So you'd think that the Labour-run Tower Hamlets Council would be doing all it could to ensure that unemployment is going down not up.
Conservative leader David Cameron has demanded more rigorous controls on the influence of Quangos in Britain.
In a speech at Canary Wharf's Clifford Chance building yesterday, Mr Cameron rounded on the "relatively unaccountable" bodies with control over "almost every part of our life".
A council committee skimmed through its authority's entire budget in half an hour - because some members had a party meeting to attend.
When Tower Hamlets Council's audit committee met at 6.30pm last Monday (June 29), chair Fazlul Haque announced that analysis of the 2008/9 accounts had to end by 7pm.
