Cllr Dr. Anwara Ali has today left Labour and joined the Conservative Group on Tower Hamlets Council.

Cllr Dr. Anwara Ali has today left Labour and joined the Conservative Group on Tower Hamlets Council. Cllr. Ali was the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing on Tower Hamelts Council and represents the Bow West ward. Leader of the group Cllr. Peter Golds is delighted that Cllr. Ali has joined the Conservative group and looks forward to working with her. Cllr. Ali issued the following statement: - “I have been a lifelong Labour supporter, but I believe the country cannot afford five more years of Gordon Brown.“As a GP working on the frontline in the largest practice in the East End, I have become increasingly disillusioned with Labour's failure to reform the NHS. The past decade has seen this Government waste millions of pounds on bureaucracy in hospitals.“Gordon Brown's obsession with top down targets and a tick box culture has ruined the morale and goodwill of the national health staff. Ill health and early death in the East End is a direct result of Labour's failure to bring real reform to the NHS.”"I feel I cannot continue to serve the people of Tower Hamlets whilst I am part of a Labour party in the borough that is racked by divisions and splits unable to deliver services to the most needy people.” The Conservative group now numbers 9 members and remains the official opposition on the council.