The ousted mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman defends his record in office in this speech to a packed audience in East London on Thursday.
He says that:
– The people of Tower Hamlets freely and fairly voted him into office.
– The establishment ganged up on him, inventing smear stories to hound him out of office.
– He can’t believe this has happened in world’s oldest democracy.
– “I may have fallen but I am not broken.”
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