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Minister to meet Tower Hamlets envoys as council faces scrutiny
November 14, 2025
|The Guardian
The communities secretary, Steve Reed, has called a meeting with officials overseeing the running of Tower Hamlets council amid continued governance concerns in the east London authority.
Envoys were sent to Tower Hamlets after a team of government-commissioned inspectors published a report last November that uncovered a “toxic” and secretive culture dominated by the inner circle of the local mayor, Lutfur Rahman.
It is understood Reed plans to meet the envoys to discuss their work, and to find out whether they think there has been sufficient change in the council and what else could be done.
Rahman, a former Labour leader of the council, first became mayor in 2010 as an independent. He was removed from office in 2015 and banned for five years from standing after an election commissioner found him guilty of electoral fraud.
He was reelected in 2022 under the banner of his Aspire party, which has a small majority of councillors.
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