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TORY Communities Secretary Eric Pickles launched a dramatic power grab in London’s Tower Hamlets yesterday that will see an unelected team strip power from Mayor Lutfur Rahman.
The minister flexed his muscles after a £1 million report by accountancy firm PwC queried several transactions at the council — but failed to find any evidence of fraud.
Tower Hamlets had not followed “best value” procedure over a handful of property sales or properly justified the reason for several grants to community organisations, it said.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
MAYER WAKEFIELD is gripped by a production dives rapidly from champagne-quaffing slick to fraying motormouth