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Over the weekend, The Sunday Times revealed that senior civil servants have drawn up three Brexit scenarios: mild, severe and “Armegeddon”. The latter, a no-deal Brexit, would see the port of Dover collapse “on day one” and the country hit…

A year ago today, three vicious cowards attacked my community around London Bridge and Borough Market. They killed eight innocent people and injured many more out enjoying all that London has to offer. They sought to strike fear and drive…

At the northern point of the city centre as you come into Liverpool is an imposing new building stretching into the sky. The immaculate cream panelling shines in the sun. It sits across the road from the University of Liverpool and a new…

Small and medium towns are the new electoral battleground, new research reveals today. Detailed analysis by Centre for Towns shows that Labour and the Conservatives are neck-and-neck in the polls, with just a single point between them in…

Last week I was grateful to be chosen by my Labour comrades to be the next deputy mayor of Lambeth, one of London's most diverse boroughs. It was a remarkable moment for me, an Anglo-Kurdish restauranteur born in Turkey in the 1970s who…

It will come as no surprise to LabourList readers that London’s council housing stock has depleted dramatically over the past few decades. Since the Right to Buy was introduced by the Tories in the 1980s, 306,000 social homes have been sold…

Today Sadiq Khan announced the appointment of Heidi Alexander, Labour MP for Lewisham East, as his new deputy mayor for transport. Alexander will succeed Val Shawcross, who is retiring from the Greater London Authority after 18 years of…

This is it, London. Polling day is upon us. The latest polls are showing that it is going to be an incredibly close race with the Tories in some key London battlegrounds, including Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster and Hillingdon. That is why…

Recent reports that London’s homicide rate has surpassed that of New York sparked debate. Some said the high murder rate was caused by social media and music; others say it is down to poverty and lack of opportunity for disadvantaged…

This week I joined campaigners from Westminster Labour on the doorstep in the West End, in my old stomping grounds of Soho and Covent Garden. I started out as a street performer in Covent Garden, and won my first election there too, to…

Earlier this week Jeremy Corbyn joined Sadiq Khan to launch Labour's local election campaign in London. They used the event to brand the Conservative record on policing and crime as one of "reckless failure" and set out why Londoners should…

We meet here today in the shadow of one of the most violent periods we have experienced in recent times not just here in London but across our country. Young people with their lives ahead of them are being ripped from our communities. Too…