Labour faces new challenge from old foes in Tower Hamlets vote

Mayoral hopeful Rabina Khan aims to forge a new coalition in the ethnically diverse London boroughA team of half a dozen Labour leafleters wait outside an East End primary school on a warm afternoon just off Roman Road street market in the gentrifying suburb of Bow. The party’s message is that schools are facing spending cuts imposed by the central government; the target audience is the predominantly Bengali women picking up children, a group that party campaigners otherwise struggle to re