There is “no chance” that the extremist-backed mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, will be readmitted to the Labour Party, sources close to the London regional party have said.
A move by Ken Livingstone to propose Lutfur’s readmission at the 30 November meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee has also been blocked, the sources said.
Livingstone, radical Islam’s single most important supporter in British politics, has met Ed Miliband to press for Lutfur’s rehabilitation after openly campaigning for Rahman during his election, against the official Labour candidate. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
