Lambeth Labour councillor and ex-mayor resigns over offensive tweets
Philip Normal, a former Lambeth mayor known for creating “La” T-shirts, has resigned as a Labour councillor and…
Local Government
Exclusive: London parties with elections in just four months have no candidates
Multiple Labour parties across London have still not selected council candidates – despite facing local authority elections in…
Conservative councillor in Reading crosses floor to join Labour
David Stevens, a longstanding Tory councillor on Reading Borough Council, has defected from the Conservative Party and announced…
Labour is stepping up the fight to save London’s transport lifeline in 2022
If there is something worse than the Tories applying one rule for them and another for everyone else,…
“Pay more but get less”: Labour responds to council funding statement
Labour has argued that people “pay more but get less” under the Tories and that the government is…
Why Labour members should vote to scrap Bristol’s elected mayor
Bristol voted in 2012 to establish an elected mayor. It was the only city, of the ten that…
My message to Boris Johnson: stop treating Londoners as a political football
He may have once been the mayor of London, he even represents a London constituency, but Boris Johnson…
How Labour can fight for climate justice – three priorities for the next year
COP26 ended in the only way that it could earlier this month. On the one hand, it was…
Tower Hamlets: How we’re working to tackle racial inequality in our borough
At Tower Hamlets Council, we are taking bold action to tackle racial inequality, investing £1.5m into a new…
How Labour is taking climate action in the Red Wall – and why it’s a vote-winner
I’ve heard too many times the debating point that ‘traditional’ Labour voters don’t care about climate action. The…
