Nick Clegg accuses Mayor Lutfur of arrogance

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has accused Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets in London, of 'arrogance' and backed an inquiry into alleged voter intimidation in the recent local election which re-elected Rahman. Clegg attacked the Tower Hamlets mayor in his radio show, Call Clegg, on Friday, according to a report by London Evening Standard. Referring to allegations of voter intimidation at polling stations at Tower Hamlets, Clegg said police should be called in if the claims were found to be true. The UK Electoral Commission has launched an investigation into what happened after allegations were raised about heavy-handed tactics and intimidation at polling stations in the borough. Mayor Rahman's council is also under two more investigations for corruption and misuse of funds. Liberal Democrats leader Clegg said in his show that he shared the people's anger about what is alleged to have happened. 'I want the Electoral Commission to do what they said they were going to do and look into these incredibly serious allegations of intimidation,' he was quoted by the UK newspaper as saying. The police need to be called in if these allegations turn out to be true, he said. An adviser to Rahman on Thursday warned that violence will 'spill onto the streets' if the results of the polls were not accepted. Kazim Zaidi, Rahman's political adviser at Tower Hamlets, wrote on a local blog onThursday: 'If those who still seem unable to accept the result continue as they are, it will spill out onto the streets where even the cleverest machine politicians will not be able to manage it', according to bdnews24.com.