Only in the ‘rotten borough’ of Tower Hamlets perhaps (the words of a former cabinet minister) could Lutfur Rahman, a man once described by a judge as a ‘gangster’ as he was banned from office for electoral fraud, have made a comeback.
But here he was, in the wake of the polls closing last Thursday, delivering an Oscars-style speech after 40,804 people voted for him to be the all-powerful mayor of the sprawling East London district, which encompasses Canary Wharf and the Olympic Park.
At his…
