Tower Hamlets Young Mayor ✦ Candidate
Young People Deserve A Say
I’m running for Tower Hamlets Young Mayor to carry your views into the council — not my own. No party. No politics. Just your voice, amplified.
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What I’m Fighting For
- Youth clubs and safe spaces that stay open — not shut to balance a budget.
- A Young Mayor who carries your views into the council — not his own.
- A resident of Tower Hamlets, standing up for young people across the borough.
My Pledges ✦ Your Mandate
My Pledges
One promise I can make today. Five more that come from you. The top five issues from the survey become my top five pledges. As more people respond, this page updates. Take the survey →
01 — Your Voice, Not Mine
I don’t decide what to fight for. You do.
If I’m elected, I’ll run a survey every term asking young people what matters most. I’ll hold assemblies in schools — including the ones nobody visits. I’ll publish what I said in every meeting and what came of it. If I don’t know what you think, I’ll ask before I speak.
That’s the job. That’s why this campaign says delegate, not politician.
02 — [FROM THE SURVEY]
[TOP ISSUE #1 FROM SURVEY — to be filled once the survey closes. This pledge will be written word-for-word from what young people in Tower Hamlets told me matters most.]
03 — [FROM THE SURVEY]
[TOP ISSUE #2 FROM SURVEY — to be filled once the survey closes. This pledge will be written word-for-word from what young people in Tower Hamlets told me matters most.]
04 — [FROM THE SURVEY]
[TOP ISSUE #3 FROM SURVEY — to be filled once the survey closes. This pledge will be written word-for-word from what young people in Tower Hamlets told me matters most.]
05 — [FROM THE SURVEY]
[TOP ISSUE #4 FROM SURVEY — to be filled once the survey closes. This pledge will be written word-for-word from what young people in Tower Hamlets told me matters most.]
06 — [FROM THE SURVEY]
[TOP ISSUE #5 FROM SURVEY — to be filled once the survey closes. This pledge will be written word-for-word from what young people in Tower Hamlets told me matters most.]
What This Role Can Actually Do
The Young Mayor isn't a councillor. Isn't an MP. Can't change laws or decide the budget.
What it can do: talk to the council, hold a small budget for youth projects, sit on committees, represent you, and campaign loudly.
As of September 2026, the Young Mayor has done three things. Helped write a youth strategy. Raised awareness of violence against women and girls. Raised £180 for charity. Not bad! But this is the youngest borough in the country with millions of pounds for youth budget. Three small things isn't enough, however. That’s not his fault though – it’s because the position has been made too small.
I want to make it bigger.
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Your Voice ✦ Your Borough
Have Your Say
I’m not writing a manifesto until I know what young people in Tower Hamlets actually want. So tell me. Takes 2 minutes. Your answers decide what I fight for.
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Pledges get built from these answers. The top five issues become my top five pledges. I’ll update the Pledges page as more people respond.
The Longer Term ✦ Not The Main Event
The Road Ahead
Young Mayor is where this starts. Not where it ends.
Everything on this site right now is about one thing: the Tower Hamlets Young Mayor campaign. That’s the live fight, and it has my full attention.
But I won’t pretend the ambition stops there. When I turn 19, I intend to stand as an independent candidate for Bethnal Green and Stepney — running on the same politics as today: no party whip, no corporate money, accountable only to the people who elect me. That is a future ambition, not a current candidacy.
The Longer-Term Vision
So here's the plan. Bethnal Green and Stepney, when I'm old enough.
I live in Poplar. Not Bethnal Green. Not pretending otherwise. Whitechapel is where I spend my time — the mosque, the markets, the streets that feel like mine.
I want to stand there because that's where the gap is widest. One of the biggest Muslim populations in the country. An MP who abstained when it mattered most. A majority that collapsed from 37,000 to under 2,000.
Same promise as now: no whip. No agenda. Just your voice.
That's the ambition. Right now, the campaign is Young Mayor. I'm not skipping any of it.
This page is the ambition. The campaign is Young Mayor.
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Poplar ✦ Tower Hamlets
About Tameem
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"Power to the People!"
— Tameem Amin, Candidate for Tower Hamlets Young Mayor
Roots
I'm 16. Born in Poplar. Bangladeshi Muslim. Lived here my whole life. I go to St Paul's Way — Maths, Further Maths, Politics, Religious Studies.
Tower Hamlets is loud, crowded, full of life. It's also one of the poorest places in the country. Both are true. I'm tired of people only saying one.
My faith matters to me. It's where I get the idea that justice, peace and kindness aren't optional. Power to the people isn't a slogan I picked up. It's what I believe.
The Record
Serving as class representative for five years, I successfully reformed our school's harsh detention system, though my changes were eventually reverted after I left. I later ran for head boy but finished second, becoming deputy head boy instead in a popularity-driven election.
Democracy only works if people show up.
Why No Party?
Never been a member of a party. Don't plan to be.
Party politics isn't built for young people. The whip means you vote how you're told — even when the people who elected you disagree.
In Bethnal Green and Stepney, an MP abstained on a ceasefire vote regarding Palestine that her constituents begged her to support. Her majority went from 37,000 to under 2,000. That's what happens when representation becomes a formality.
I'm independent because the only people I answer to are the people who put me here. If that makes it harder, that's the point.
THE STORY SO FAR
- 2021 Class rep in Year 7. Five years representing my classmates.
- 2025 Ran for head boy on "power to the people." Finished second. Became deputy head boy. Learned more from losing than winning.
- 2026 Started at St Paul's Way. Saw a comment under the Young Mayor's TikTok: "does the young mayor actually do anything?" Decided to answer it.
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Thanks ✦ The People Behind This
Credits
This campaign isn’t a one-person job. Here’s who and what made it possible.
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Built by Tameem Amin. Just me. Inspired by Zohran Mamdani's campaign for New York City Mayor, which I followed closely in 2025. I wanted to make a site that was fast, accessible, and easy to read — and that meant building it myself.
Tools & Services
- Forms — Tally
- Hosting — Cloudflare Pages
- Fonts — Fontsource (Archivo Black, Inter) + Union Gothic (self-hosted, site root)
- Styling — Tailwind CSS
- Checked and proofread with AI.
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What I'm doing, where I've been, and what I'm hearing. Written by me, posted on Substack.
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