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Eight Labour MPs have declared that they will not seek reselection ahead of the next general election. Our colleagues will be missed, but these vacancies could provide the opportunity for Labour to correct its minority ethnic…
Kate Hoey hit headlines recently when she announced her intention to stand down as the Labour candidate for Vauxhall at the next election, which has set the starting gun on my local party's long-awaited selection process. After over 30…
The full list of Labour members seeking to be candidates in the London Assembly 2020 elections has been obtained by LabourList. Below is the complete list, with names under the vacant seat that each person is interested in. Some are also…
London is one of Britain’s truly global assets. Its greatest strength has always been its innate ability to reinvent itself, integrate new cultures and assimilate new ways of doing things into its economic and social fabric. It’s why…
Last week, Labour Party members across London were contacted by the regional party about applying for the selection process ahead of the 2020 London Assembly elections. I quickly announced that I would be taking part in this process…
In the middle of the 19th century, my family sailed across the Irish Sea to Liverpool. Like so many people in the city, my family were forced here by the Great Hunger. They were immigrants. They worked on the docks. And they made their home…
Bringing council services in-house, giving 50 agency staff permanent contracts, securing £37m to deliver 384 new council homes, identifying 28 new sites for social housing, publishing our first annual Modern Slavery statement. These are…
The Housing Minister recently said that, as Mayor, I should focus on building more expensive private apartments rather than social and affordable homes. That was the attitude at City Hall under the previous mayor and could not be more…
This year, Hackney is marking two anniversaries in the history of social housing. The first is the 100 year anniversary of the Housing and Planning Act 1919, popularly known as the Addison Act after the Shoreditch Liberal (and then Labour)…
Over the last decade, the number of rough sleepers in London has more than doubled. Between 2013 and 2017, nearly 650 homeless Londoners died on our streets. There are more than 54,000 households in London living in temporary accommodation…
They say a week is a long time in politics. The political cycle means just looking to the next election can be the norm when making decisions, but when it comes to the environment we need to face up to the ‘political iceberg’ ahead, which…
The launch of the ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ) in London by Sadiq this week is a game changer in the battle to tackle air pollution. Every year, 40,000 early deaths are linked to toxic air across the country, and it is estimated more…
