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A selection of candidates for the four upcoming by-elections across Hackney have been quizzed on their policies concerning violence against women and girls.

Jasmine Cannon-Ikurusi Wigodo, Conservatives Jasmine Cannon-Ikurusi Wigodo, Conservatives. - Credit: The UK Sapphire Foundation Jasmine Cannon-Ikurusi Wigodo is campaigning on a platform of improved health and wellbeing, opportunities for employment and training in the borough, a reduction of crime rates, and improved road safety awareness. Founder of NGO Sapphire Community Group, which works to help young people with employment support, mental health, personal development and empowerment through the creative arts, the Conservative candidate pledged also to work on homelessness and social hou...

“Sometimes we can forget that the rights and privileges we now have were hard fought for by pioneers like Maureen." Maureen Colquhoun will be remembered as "a tough political fighter for justice and truth". - Credit: Courtesy of the Colquhoun/Todd Family Maureen was born on August 12, 1928 and joined the Labour Party at 18. She studied economics at the London School of Economics and served as a councillor in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex from 1971 to 1974. Mairi said Maureen was always a feminist and a socialist, speaking for those values throughout her career and even in the face o...

“We could continue as we are, but it takes a lot of resources to maintain that list as it stands, and that is resources we are not spending on working with households on their housing options." She said she feels “very uncomfortable with giving people the false expectation that they will get a home when we know, with the waiting times and the scale of the register, they won’t". There are now 13,400 households on the waiting list for around 40,000 social housing stock properties in Hackney, with the register growing each year. Additionally, just over 600 properties became available this ...