A second organisation whose vote helped Newham mayor Sir Robin Wales go forward unopposed as Labour candidate for next year’s mayoral election in the borough has added weight to a complaint by local party members about an aspect of the candidate selection process. National officers of Bectu, the media and entertainment union have found no record of a […]
Labour’s governing national executive committee (NEC) has turned down a request from party members in Newham for an inquiry into how Sir Robin Wales was chosen to seek election as the borough’s mayor for a fifth time next year despite two of the organisations that supported him conducting their own investigations into how their votes were cast, one […]
This may come as a surprise. But not very long ago, before too many of Britain’s politicians and too much of its media succumbed to, caved in to, or sought to appease forces of populism from both left and right, it was widely-agreed that London was an economic and cultural asset that benefited Britain as […]
With one in 50 London residents now living in temporary accommodation at a cost to the city’s local authorities of some £3 million a day, the capital’s housing crisis is threatening to “break borough budgets”, the cross-party London Councils group warned today. New figures from the group, which represents all London boroughs, show a 10 […]
Walk down Commercial Road as night draws in and look up at the residential tower blocks that crowd in, canyon-like. How many have their lights on as residents busy themselves with food and leisure? Not many – in some blocks, barely 10 per cent. Maybe people are still on their way home from work, are […]
A new chair and chief executive are to take over at the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), ushering in the next phase of the continuing evolution of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Shazia Hussain, currently deputy chief executive of Waltham Forest, has been appointed to succeed Lyn Garner as chief executive, and Suki Kalirai, an […]
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of Angela Rayner’s housing announcement on Tuesday was its tone. Revealing the surprise reduction in London’s annual target, from 100,000 to 80,000, the Deputy Prime Minister said this was “still a huge ask, but I know it is one that the Mayor is determined to rise to and I met […]
The political complexion of London has once again turned redder. Labour gained eight seats in the capital at the general election of 4 July, 2024 – highlighted in the map above – all at the expense of the Conservatives. They lost only one: Islington North, to Jeremy Corbyn standing as an Independent. The Liberal Democrats […]
