Close Ally of Disgraced Mayor Wins £250,000 Taxpayer Cash Contract

Shamsul Haque, a witness who failed to tell the truth in a High Court trial about his support for Tower Hamlet’s disgraced mayor Lutfur Rahman, has been given £250,000 of taxpayer cash by the resurgent politician’s town hall. Rotten Rahman was elected in 2010 though was banned from public office and stripped of his status as a solicitor after he was convicted of election fraud in 2015.[…] Read the rest