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John Biggs

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Jenrick’s involvement in ‘cash for favours’ scandal is ‘damning and offensive’ – Tower Hamlets Mayor

John Biggs
28 June, 2020

Richard Desmond’s dodged levy could have covered much of the council’s coronavirus shortfall, writes Tower Hamlet’s Mayor John Biggs.

Councils like mine are being hampered as we try to tackle the housing crisis

John Biggs
6 June, 2019

Tackling our dysfunctional housing market requires a herculean effort at national and local levels, writes Tower Hamlets mayor John Biggs.

How one council is resisting the worst effects of Universal Credit

John Biggs
2 November, 2018

The Tories’ flagship welfare policy is hitting Tower Hamlets hard. But they’re fighting back, writes Mayor John Biggs.

Social housing

Viability assessments are being used to undermine London’s affordable housing

John Biggs
14 April, 2017

Tower Hamlets is the fastest growing place in the country. One of the biggest challenges we face is ensuring that growth works for local people and delivers more genuinely affordable housing. Decent affordable housing is the foundation of a goodtest

Boris has consistently misled Londoners about his Garden Bridge vanity project

John Biggs
15 April, 2015

There are many more worthwhile things £60m of taxpayer money could fund in London

Comment: On Boris’s watch the police are on the precipice

John Biggs
28 January, 2015

London’s police service is ‘on the precipice of being destroyed’ according to the chairman of the Metropolitan Police

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