No suprise there huh! In our last post we almost predicted the outcome didn’t we readers? Lutfur Rahman was coming across as desperate and also over confident, especially with his campaign launch and dinner funded by rogue restaurant millionaire Shiraj Haque on 14 September at the Troxy in commerical road. The only key endorser physically present was Baroness Uddin- yes, the woman accused of blatantly fiddling tens of thousands of pounds in her House of Lords expenses!
He has already been to the High Court when Labour’s National Executive barred him twice last month and forced them to cave in.
But Labour finally dropped him again after allegations about ‘suspect’ party membership among his supporters. The NEC issued a statement yesterday saying it had “received a number of serious allegations concerning both the eligibility of participating voters and the conduct of Lutfur Rahman” and an investigation was under way.
It added: “As a result, administrative action has been taken to remove Lutfur Rahman as a candidate pending the investigation.”
It then imposed a candidate, Tower Hamlets council’s current leader Helal Abbas, who Rahman defeated in the party’s selection process on September 4.
Rahman has not yet declared whether he is quitting or would take the plunge and run as an independent. Police have since been asked to look into allegations of Rahman not declaring his campaign expenses.
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