The Regent’s Park by-election in Camden on Thursday, 9 July was the last of those to be caused by Green Party candidates who won in London on 7 May having to immediately resign because it turned out they weren’t eligible to take their seats. Following contests in Hackney and Haringey held two weeks ago for […]
Five minutes after sitting down with Lewisham’s new Green Mayor, we are talking about Ghana versus England. The World Cup works in mysterious ways. Ghana is an unexpected part of Liam Shrivastava’s journey. Not long after joining Labour a little over a decade ago, he went to work as media manager for an elite football […]
Seasoned observers of London politics weren’t surprised when Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch rolled up at Westminster Council’s 20-storey, 1960s, Victoria Street headquarters on the day after May’s London local elections, declaring “the Conservatives are coming back”. The prestigious borough’s Tories had won nine seats from Labour, enabling them to recapture the 54-seat council, which they […]
Stephen Cowan, Labour leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council, is set to become the next chair of London Councils, the organisation representing all 33 of the capital’s local authorities. He has secured the Labour nomination for the post ahead of Ealing leader Peter Mason and now needs to come top in a first-past-the-post vote of […]
What is going to happen in the record nine councils in London where no party won a majority of councillors? At this stage, few of the players themselves will know the outcome. But here are the tasks facing those No Overall Control authorities. Barnet: Labour and the Conservatives ended up with 31 seats each. There […]
As expected, the 2026 London borough elections resulted in some dramatic changes to the capital’s political map, most notably Labour’s loss of control of about half of the boroughs it had won in 2022 and the Green Party’s winning control of three. It is the first time London voters have put the Greens in charge […]
I had decided not to make predictions – certainly not in public – about the outcomes of this year’s votes in the capital’s 32 boroughs. Lewis Baston and I, as we embarked on compiling our epic guide to the elections, London Decides, made a decision ourselves. It was that we would not make predictions, because doing […]
The predictions are of seismic change and unprecedented turmoil. The keywords: fragmentation; patchwork; loss of control. But, whisper it very quietly. This may not go nearly as badly for Labour as people are saying. Of course, it will be quite bad. As in bad for the dozens of those individual Labour councillors – many long-time […]
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