Local leaders, volunteers and relatives marked the 74th anniversary of the Bethnal Green tube disaster on Sunday 5th March during a Memorial Service at St John Church. The memorial service marked the tragedy that befell those that sought shelter in the tube station on the 3rd March 1943, during the Second World War when 173 people died and around 300 people became trapped after a large crowd attempted to find shelter in the tube station during an air raid. The Bethnal Green tube disaster was the biggest loss of civilian life during the Second World War.

Rushanara Ali MP called on the government to ensure that young people who receive help from the National Citizens Service will be able to continue their progress in ambitious plans for a new mentoring scheme, during the second reading of the National Citizens Service Bill.

Some 600 flats occupied by some 3,000 residents on the Ocean Estate in Tower Hamlets were recently left without hot water and heating for a week during one of the coldest periods of the year. With no alternative accommodation offered to vulnerable residents at a time of near freezing temperatures following the breakdown of the district heating system, Rushanara Ali MP has referred East Thames to the Housing Regulator, the Housing and Communities Agency, to ensure that lessons are learnt and this doesn’t happen again.

A cross-party party group of 70 Parliamentarians is urging the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson to intensify the Government’s pressure on the Myanmar Government and allow full humanitarian access to the Rohingya Muslims in the North Rakhine State of Myanmar.

After a closely fought referendum campaign, Britain went to the polls yesterday and voted to leave the European Union.

The Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow has given her congratulations to Labour's Sadiq Khan who has been elected as London's new Mayor.

Sadiq Khan, MP for Tooting, has been selected as the Labour Candidate running for Mayor of London in the election in May 2016.

Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall are running to become the new leader of the Labour Party. Rushanara is supporting Yvette. 

Labour has launched its contest to find the new party leader following Ed Miliband's resignation. 

Rushanara Ali MP welcomed the ruling made at the High Court confirming Tower Hamlets Council’s legal ownership of the Henry Moore ‘Draped Seated Woman’ sculpture, popularly known amongst residents as ‘Old Flo’.