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Faiza Shaheen won’t back down
In one of the most dishonest episodes of the recent purges, Labour HQ has tried to deny Chingford the chance to vote for a committed and talented socialist — but ANDREW MURRAY finds she is fighting back, with huge local support
LOCAL HERO: Supporters rally for former Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen after she was blocked her from standing, May 31, 2024

THIS working-class Muslim woman is out to annoy the Starmer apparatus.

Victim of a political drive-by shooting for the ages, Faiza Shaheen has the fizzing popular energy in her struggle against the brute force of the Labour machine in Chingford and Woodford Green, on the edge of East London.

In a sense, she is one of two Labour candidates fighting to wrest the seat from the ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan-Smith who inherited the constituency from Norman Tebbit, Margaret Thatcher’s “semi-house trained polecat,” in Michael Foot’s pungent phrase.

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