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 […]
London’s population reached a historic high of 8,945,300 in the middle of last year, according to new estimates released by the Office for National Statistics. After slower growth at the end of the 2010s and a slight decline between 2019 and 2021, the number of people living in the city rose by 0.9 per cent […]
Labour’s massive general election win can be seen as completing the party’s victory over two forms of destructive populism: having already sidelined Corbynism, with its yapping ideologues and student union delusions, it has gone on to vanquish a Conservative party that, in its desperation to survive, sank to low scaremongering and phoney patriotism. Shed no […]
Sadiq Khan’s re-election as Mayor of London on 2 May 2024 was historic. No previous Mayor has won a third term – Ken Livingstone tried and failed in 2008 and 2012, and Boris Johnson had moved on to other things by 2016. Khan’s 11.1 percentage point margin was also a record for a mayoral contest […]
Sadiq Khan has a further four years as Mayor of London ahead of him after securing a record-breaking third term in office. He won with a 3.2 per cent swing in his favour, the second highest vote total in UK election history and the second largest margin of victory by share of the vote of […]
The stage seemed set for Keith Prince, Conservative London Assembly member for Havering & Redbridge, to be squeezed out of his seat by a pincer movement of Reform UK rising from the Right and Labour rising from the Left. He had almost been defeated in 2016 by a similar combination of Labour and the UK […]
I was looking for the synagogue when I saw the flag of Palestine. It wasn’t all that prominent in the Newbury Park streetscape – not hung high in full view – but flying from the front of a fast food shop. It was, though, quite visible enough to make its point to customers and passers-by. […]
