The new leader of the Labour Party has said he is “certainly open to a discussion” about how tax revenues are raised “across London and different regions” as he affirmed a guiding principle “that decisions about communities should be made as close to those communities as possible”. Taking question from journalists after holding a remote […]
Jerry Okoye tells his story to Joshua Neicho. I’m a personal trainer with more than 10 years experience and a mature student in sports rehabilitation at Middlesex University, where I also work as a senior student learning assistant (SLA). Five years ago, I was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, an auto-immune disease. Medication and the intense work-outs […]
London’s boroughs have formed a capital-wide partnership to bulk buy personal protective equipment (PPE) for use in care homes and by providers of other key local services. London Councils, the cross-party body that represents all 33 of Greater London’s local authorities, says the initiative will result in the distribution of more than 48 million PPE […]
London councils responsible for handing out cash to small businesses during the coronavirus crisis need to improve on a currently uneven performance. That was the message from the London Chamber of Commerce today during a live webinar for the capital’s businesses with minister for London and small business minister Paul Scully, MP for Sutton & […]
This year marks 20 years since the creation of the Greater London Authority (GLA), comprising the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, as the newest incarnation of city-wide London government. Its establishment in 2000 ended a 14-year spell without such an institution after Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLA’s predecessor, the Greater London Council (GLC), […]
Today’s main news and talking points about the capital as it copes with the virus listed below as they arise… The Federation of Small Businesses in London has given a warm welcome to chancellor Rishi Sunak’s pledge of financial support for self-employed people hit by the coronavirus crisis, made this afternoon. FSB London says “vast […]
London is an economic powerhouse, accounting for 23 per cent of the UK economy with only 13 per cent of the UK population. Productivity figures released last week show that four of the ten most productive UK districts (in terms of economic output per hour worked) are in the capital: Hounslow, Tower Hamlets, City of […]
What was, until the end of the 1980s, a capital city in long term decline that even national government seemed to have abandoned, London began its transformation in the 1990s into the powerhouse of the UK economy it is today. But now we have a Conservative government with a big majority, none of it thanks […]
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