The Q&A-style NS Interview in this week’s magazine, which hits the news-stands tomorrow, is with the first directly elected mayor of east London’s Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman. He, of course, is the local politician who came to national prominence when he was removed as Labour’s candidate for mayor by the party’s National Executive Committee, over concerns about his “conduct” and alleged links to Islamic extremists. He then went on to win the mayoral election in October as an independent.
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