Labour has lost more London councillors and candidates to rival parties amid a wave of political defections in the capital.

Southwark councillor Sam Foster revealed on Friday that he had joined the Greens, while Fiona Mulaisho, a long-serving Labour representative in Brent, resigned by stating the party no longer represented her values.

Ms Mulaisho was due to be a Labour candidate in May’s local elections but said she had now joined the Liberal Democrats and will be standing for them in Queen’s Park.

She cited a "toxic culture" in the Brent Labour party and claims she was told that she was the wrong ethnicity to stand for election in her own constituency before being selected for a different ward.

Mr Foster resigned from Labour last month following a year of “chaos” in Southwark, w

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