Vote Ajmal Masroor
For Bethnal Green And Stepney

I’ll work  with our local mayor to secure homes for all and the best schools for our kids.

• I believe everyone should have access to decent, safe, and affordable housing, ensuring everyone has a place to call home.
• I will work with local authorities to start an urgent mass council home-building programme to address the housing shortage and provide secure homes for all.
• I will campaign to build more homes for people, not empty offices or luxury apartments.
• I am committed to bringing in rent caps, supporting policies that will lead to a reduction in rents and protect tenants by ending no-fault evictions to protect tenants.
• I will campaign to push back against the academisation of our schools
• I will work to address falling school rolls in parts of the constituency

I’ll oppose Labour’s plans for benefits caps, tax cuts for the rich, and selling off the NHS.

• I will call for a fair tax system where the wealthy pay their share – including a wealth tax on the richest – reducing inequality and funding essential services to ensure equal opportunities for everyone.
• I will demand an end to austerity measures and increase funding for essential public services. 
• I will support public ownership of key services and amenities to prioritise people over profits, ensuring a better quality of life for all.
• I will fiercely resist further NHS privatisation, ensuring it remains a public service, free from corporate influence and accessible to all.
• I promise to work towards fully renationalising the NHS, restoring it to a true public service.

I’ll answer directly to you, the people, not big companies and the super-rich.

• I will fight Westminster’s attempts to undermine our elected mayor and get the inspectors out of Tower Hamlets.
• I pledge to invite constituents to weekly Parliament visits and regular surgeries in Bethnal Green and Stepney.
• I will hold regular town halls and public meetings to engage with constituents and take their views into account before major votes.
• I will shine a light on undemocratic lobby groups, push back against the corrupting influence of the super-rich, and challenge corporate power.

I’ll demand ethical and humane immigration and foreign policies. 

• I will oppose the unfair deportation of immigrants from any country
• I will work for a humane and refugee policy where that ensures dignity, compassion, and care for asylum seekers.
• Support the rights of refugees and legal immigrants to work, healthcare, and housing
• I will seek the prosecution of war criminals at home and abroad 
• We pledge to adopt an ethical foreign policy that condemns and does not support war crimes or oppression.
• We advocate for an end to arms sales to countries involved in civilian killings.

I’ll challenge Islamophobia, racism and discrimination.

• I will demand the scrapping of the PREVENT scheme
• I’ll use my salary and fundraise to fight Islamophobia in our borough with legal action.
• I’ll work with lawyers to collect testimony and start the legal process and private prosecutions 
• I will push to have the APPG definition of Islamophobia accepted by all government bodies.
• I will seek to have the divisive definition of ‘extremism’ dropped.
• I speak out against racism and discrimination rife within mainstream society and the big political parties.

I’ll work with you to protect our families.

• I will work with the mayor and the police to reduce knife crime and anti-social behaviour
• I pledge to tackle child poverty, hunger, and job insecurity by calling for an adequate social welfare system and reversal of cruel benefit cuts.
• I will strive to achieve fair wages for all, including above-inflation pay rises for nurses, teachers, and public sector workers, to ensure financial stability and support for all community members.
• I will press for the cultural and religious sensitives of our children to be taken into consideration in schools.