The party also capitalised on a recent scandal surrounding local Labour MP Jas Athwal, who triggered the by-election by standing down as the Mayfield councillor last month. In 2024, Athwal faced ...

Noor Jahan Begum won the Redbridge council seat vacated by the borough’s former leader, Jas Athwal, who was elected a Labour MP last year. Months after his election Mr Athwal, the now MP for Ilford ...

The Labour Party’s vote tumbled from 48 percent to 26 percent. The election in Mayfield ward was triggered after Jas Athwal—slum landlord and right wing Labour MP—resigned as councillor.