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UNDER-FIRE Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales is to face a re-selection challenge after local Labour members successfully argued that rules were broken when he was re-endorsed by the party last year.
Mr Wales, who has headed the east London council since 1995, has been embroiled in a series of controversies around the gentrification of the deprived borough, including using taxpayers’ cash to help West Ham take over the Olympic Stadium.
He has also faced the ire of housing campaigners, including single mothers evicted from a local hostel.
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says