As Parliament judders towards a general election, at local level the gears are whirring. London’s Liberal Democrats are feeling confident, thanks to a huge boost to their membership – up 300 per cent since the 2016 EU referendum to around 24,000 – and their performance at May’s European elections, which saw them beat Labour to […]
There are many different versions of London in peoples’ heads, including those of people living here. Some of these imagined capitals are romantic, inspiring and full of hope. Others are poisonous fantasies. Anti-London feeling is very far from new, but today’s manifestations are disturbingly reflective of the age. Populist, prejudiced, and full of ignorance, they […]
Labour’s London region has released the full list of those shortlisted to be candidates for London Assembly seats in next May’s elections. Many of those chosen have already made this public, but we now have all the contenders, as it were, officially in one place. Current Labour constituency AMs who wish to defend their seats […]
He talked for three quarters of an hour about inequality, nationalisation, democracy, “the people” and “the rich”, yet London MP Jeremy Corbyn, who claims he wants to lead the nation, had nothing to say in his Labour conference speech yesterday about the capital city, which has the highest poverty rates in the country and on […]
Anger can quickly turn to apathy when people feel powerless to induce change. We’re in danger of entering this territory when it comes to homelessness. Londoners have exhibited their humanity in response to rising rough sleeping by volunteering in their thousands for outreach teams and donating almost £250,000 last winter to homeless charities. But as […]
On London recently reported that local activist Delia Mattis, an enthusiastic Corbynite who in the past has backed controversial Labour figures Chris Williamson MP (currently suspended over complaints relating to antisemitism) and Jackie Walker (now expelled over antisemitism), was seeking to become Labour’s candidate for the Enfield North parliamentary seat currently occupied by Joan Ryan, […]
The Enfield North parliamentary constituency has been marginal throughout most of this century, hosting a string of tussles between its current MP Joan Ryan, running for Labour, and Conservative Nick de Bois. Ryan first won the seat in the 1997 Blair landslide, seeing off Mark Field, before retaining it against challenges by de Bois in […]
Last week, the Conservatives’ London Mayor candidate Shaun Bailey set out ideas for addressing London’s housing supply problems, notably the shortage of homes people on low and middle incomes can reasonably afford in the capital. In a speech and in a press release, he outlined proposals to, as the latter put it, “recapture the spirit […]
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