Detailed proposals for changes to parliamentary constituencies have been announced. The plans are part of reforms which would see the House of Commons reduce from 650 MPs to 600. A public consultation is now under way and final proposals will not be made until 2018.

"I would like to offer my warmest wishes and salaams to all those celebrating Eid ul-Adha this year. As we come together with family, friends and neighbours, we join millions of others across the world taking part in this important celebration of our faith."

On 5 July 2016, the Labour Party offices in Bethnal Green were vandalised. 

"Sir John Chilcot’s report into the decisions taken leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 stands as one of the most comprehensive ever conducted. I hope Chilcot also enables this generation of political leaders, and future generations, to avoid ever making the same mistakes again.

A motion of no confidence in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was passed by the party's MPs on Tuesday 28 June.

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.

Altab Ali Day is a commemoration of the death of Altab Ali who was murdered on 4 May 1978 by three racist teenagers as he walked home from work. The reaction among the Tower Hamlets community and across London played a key part in the defeat of the National Front in the late 1970s.

Donald Trump has caused international controversy this week over his inflammatory remarks, calling for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on”.

Rushanara Ali MP marks Human Rights Day by supporting Amnesty International’s Write for Rights Campaign.