On The Poor Optics Of City Councillor Nighat Qureishi Nabbing A Grant For Her Billingsgate Network Group From Our Local Authority’s Destination City Partnership Fund

On 19 June 2026 City councillor Nighat Qureishi used LinkedIn to announce the Billingsgate Network Group she heads had scored a City of London council grant. By checking the council website we quickly confirmed this was true. Information about the Billingsgate Network Group is rather harder to come by - when we looked it was not registered with Companies House or the Charities Commission. This is…