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Tower Hamlets politicians have condemned the violence that has occurred across the borough in the last 24 hours.

Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse Jim Fitzpatrick and Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman have both promised that everything is being done to try and safeguard people and property in the area from rioters.

An Isle of Dogs councillor defected from the Conservative Party to join Tower Hamlets' Mayor Lutfur Rahman's team.

Maium Miah, Conservative councillor for Millwall, has left the party to become Mr Rahman's executive advisor for the Third Sector and Community Engagement.

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets and his team have spent over £2,000 of taxpayers money on taxi fares in the first nine months in office.

Lutfur Rahman, who became the borough's first directly elected mayor last May, and two other leading council members claimed £2,191.04 in fares to take them to and from official engagements up to the end of February.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg criticised David Cameron at the launch of his campaign for the alternative vote system in Canary Wharf.

Mr Clegg was at the East Wintergarden on Saturday morning to address the Liberal Democrats' London region spring conference at the East Wintergarden, and urged party members to get behind the voting reform.

It was supposed to be the moment that changed the course of modern British politics - but its long-term impact is debatable.

The Limehouse declaration, devised around a kitchen table in a house on Narrow Street by former Labour cabinet ministers David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers, was made on January 25, 1981.

Newly-elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has made the first appointments to his cabinet.

Mr Rahman, who became the borough's first directly elected mayor in controversial circumstances last month, confirmed four posts at his first cabinet meeting last night.

There will be five candidates fighting it out to become Tower Hamlets first directly elected mayor next month.

Nominations for the election, which will be held on October 21, closed this afternoon, with candidates from the three main political parties joined by a Green and an independent.

As everyone knows by now, tomorrow is polling day, but as well as the General Election there will be a plethora of local council seats to be contested in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Greenwich.

It promises to be a tense couple of days, with many pundits predicting a hung parliament.

Britain can expect a budget within 50 days should the Conservatives win the General Election.

David Cameron made the pledge at an event at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf this morning as he outlined the Tories' plans to bring the UK out the current economic slump.

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.

Jim Thornton wants you to think independently.

The property manager and former Conservative broke away from the Blues in 2007, and wants Poplar and Limehouse voters to consider alternatives to the party machines 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.

By John Biggs

We are of course all concerned about the economy but different political parties have different solutions for dealing with it.

The next few months will clarify whether the worst is over, and in the next few years we will understand whether we made the right choices.

Poplar and Canning Town MP Jim Fitzpatrick has moved from transport to agriculture.

The former firefighter arrives at DEFRA following the resignation of Jane Kennedy, who left after she was unable to confirm her support for embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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