My campaign aims to engage people – that’s why I want to hear your ideas for London

During my selection campaign, there were a couple of key principles that I stood by – that my campaign would be one that engaged and involved as many Londoners as possible, and that we would put ideas front and centre: winning with a real purpose.

Those are the principles that I will carry through to the Mayoral election campaign.

I’m delighted today to launch our manifesto consultation. We publish six papers today that set out the key challenges facing London, along with some of the ideas and solutions I have spoken about during the selection campaign and since – including, I’m proud to say, some excellent Labour ideas I have adopted from the five great Londoners who stood in the selection contest: Tessa Jowell, Christian Wolmar, David Lammy, Diane Abbott and Gareth Thomas.

Winning London next year will be a major challenge. We need to convince many Londoners whose trust we failed to win both at the last Mayoral election in 2012 and again at the General Election in May. And that means setting out ideas which reflect what Londoners need: a solution to the housing crisis, support for business and jobs, fairer pay, a more affordable transport network, and urgent action to tackle our disgraceful air quality problem and make London cleaner and greener.

I can’t do that alone. Politicians don’t have a monopoly on good ideas and I want to crowdsource the best ideas from Londoners in every corner of our city, east to west and north to south, from the shop floor to the boardroom, young and old alike. So the papers also contain a set of questions I’d like your help to answer.

I’m asking everyone in our movement to get in touch with their ideas. And not just that – I want you to reach out to your local communities, tell me what you’re hearing on the doorstep, and at your community events.

Making a submission is easy. You can find an online form – as well as the papers – here. The consultation closes at 6pm on 27 November 2015, so please do get in touch by then. I’m looking forward to hearing your ideas.