Labour’s candidate for mayor of Newham, an east London borough with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the UK, bought a council-subsidised home despite already being a homeowner, documents seen by Novara Media appear to show. A Green councillor for the borough has called for an investigation and an external audit.
If elected mayor of Newham on 7 May, Forhad Hussain will oversee the 387,000 residents and an annual budget of around £400m. Yet Hussain - whose first pledge as would-be mayor is to “enforce the rules” - appears to have had the rules bent for him by Labour-run Newh…