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 […]
It is a year since the government’s New Towns Taskforce began figuring out where such settlements should be built, and six months have passed since it was announced that more than 100 sites had been submitted for consideration, including several from London. In London planning circles there is an expectation that the decisions of the […]
“Labour holds ward in Barking & Dagenham” may sound like the definition of a “dog bites man” electoral incident, but there were several interesting features of Thursday’s council by-election result in the borough. Thames View ward is in the south west of Barking & Dagenham. Its northern border is the A13 road and part of […]
It is true that a minister’s letter said “further actions” might still be taken against Tower Hamlets Council if it fails to “collaborate meaningfully” with the people the government sent there in January to improve the running of the place under its comeback Mayor, Lutfur Rahman of the Aspire Party. But a fuller account of […]
The Silvertown road tunnel opened in April, but arguments about whether or not it has been a good thing have rumbled on like heavy traffic. Now, City Hall has released new Transport for London figures, saying they confirm that the new Thames crossing’s initial impact has been positive in several ways and “a huge success” […]
It’s a year since a general election that brought a blessed end to government by culture war division, political game-playing and the feeding of “island nation” self-delusion. And yet Great Britain’s Great Pretending continues. Yes, a stumbling Labour administration has its welcome long game, hard truths side, with its combination of fiscal rules, investment spending […]
There’s a narrow strip of land in Canning Town, no more than 50 metres long and 25 wide. It’s hemmed in on one side by Victorian terraced streets and on the other by the six lanes of traffic that make up the A13 Newham Way. But its neat wooden planters, filled with lavender and vivid […]
