It was a national election that no party won: the Conservatives misfired disastrously and Labour remains a long way from power. But in the capital, Labour has triumphed again. Before polling stations opened yesterday morning, […]
Elections are a time for many things. I’ve come to think of them as a time for sniggering at parties’ desperate attempts to sway voters by presenting a dubious grasp of mathematics in graph form and […]
Around ten of London’s 73 parliamentary seats could change hands at the general election, according to a new opinion poll and local soundings taken by the Evening Standard newspaper. The findings underlines that Labour is on […]
London is often described as rich, decried as a “playground for the rich” and denounced for receiving more than its fair share of tax payer riches in the form of public investment. But how rich […]
Sadiq Khan has again called for the government to give non-UK European nationals the right to stay in the country, saying that a million Londoners (out of at least 8.7 million) are “of EU origin”. He […]
Sadiq Khan has warned MPs that London’s financial sector faces “catastrophe” if the UK leaves the EU without any sort of deal on future trade relations. His comment is a reminder of how important banking, […]
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