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Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Today Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan are launching Labour’s London campaign ahead of local elections on May 3rd. They will set out the key reasons for which…
Former party chairman and Tory donor Lord Ashcroft has commissioned research into the views of London voters. It shows a grim picture for the Conservatives in upcoming local elections. Ashcroft’s study is made up of results from a poll of…
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Labour activists are in a buoyant mood - the May elections are looking grim for the Tories. The first London poll of the year released yesterday reveals the…
Over the last few years, recorded crime has begun to rise significantly across England and Wales - particularly the most violent crimes. This is on the back of nearly eight years of sustained Tory cuts to our police and criminal justice…
The local elections this May will be a referendum on eight years of a Tory government that has been desperately weak on crime - and even weaker on the causes of crime. The Tory approach has seen recorded crime, particularly violent crime…
The huge growth in the sharing economy has caught the government on the back foot and radically transformed the short-term rental market in British cities, particularly London. In late 2016, the market leader Airbnb had almost 50,000…
The Labour leader of Haringey council has accused supporters of Jeremy Corbyn of sexism and bullying as she resigned following a lengthy and bitter row with members of Momentum over a local regeneration project. Claire Kober said she would…
Time and time again, it’s been shown that fostering good industrial relations – and ensuring a constructive relationship between employers and trade unions – can benefit everyone. This is the case with the landmark new Licence for London…
I’ve been reviewing Labour’s performance in local council by-elections on a regular basis for LabourList. So what has happened on this front in the period between the general election and the new year? Here, in the same format as I…
Almost 500,000 million British jobs could be lost if Theresa May walks away from the EU without a deal, Sadiq Khan said today. The London mayor published new research saying that a "no deal hard Brexit" could mean 87,000 fewer jobs in the…
In the 21st century, in one of the world’s richest countries, no-one should feel that sleeping on the streets at night is their only option. But, shamefully in Tory Britain, rough sleeping has doubled since 2010. There is no doubt that…
Sadiq Khan has warned Jeremy Corbyn and Labour against displaying any “complacency” in the run-up to next year’s local elections. The London mayor used a LabourList article to demand that the “energy and optimism” displayed by the party at…
