Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has been left ‘shocked’ after being barred from standing in a re-run of the May 2014 poll that elected him.
The election was today declared void after Mr Rahman was found guilty of illegal practices and accused of ‘driving a coach and horses’ through local authority law.
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