75th anniversary of the Battle Of Cable Street march and rally, Tower Hamlets, 2 October 2011.

Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets, at 75th anniversary of the Battle Of Cable Street march and rally, Tower Hamlets October 2011.
He was re-elected at the 2014 mayoral election as the candidate for Tower Hamlets First, but the result of this election was declared null and void on 23 April 2015 when the Election Court officially reported Rahman to be "personally guilty" of "corrupt or illegal practices, or both" (electoral fraud) under the Representation of the People Act 1983.[1][2] He was thus removed from his office with immediate effect and was also personally debarred from standing for elected office until 2021.[3][4] He was also struck off as a solicitor.[5]

In 2018 he was involved in the founding of a new party, Aspire, and at the May 2022 local elections, following the expiration of his ban, he successfully stood for election to the mayoralty as the Aspire candidate, with the party also taking the majority of seats on the council.