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Diane Abbott, one of the people in the running to be Labour's candidate for London Mayor, has secured a debate on toxic air pollution in London. Abbott, who is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, has seen to it that the issue is…
UCATT has become the latest trade union to endorse Sadiq Khan for London Mayor. UCATT represents more than 80,000 construction workers across the UK. In offering their backing to the Tooting MP they have joined GMB and Unite who last week…
I doubt I am alone in how I was feeling one night about three years ago. Dissatisfied with the way our city was being run by a part time Mayor who spent most of his time devising plans for his return to Westminster, I did not feel that…
What do Londoners need? They need a solution to the housing crisis. But instead, they are getting a package of policies from this Tory government that is likely to make the housing crisis many times worse, drive up the costs of failure and…
Sadiq Khan has won the first trade union endorsements of the race to be Labour's candidate for Mayor of London next year. Both Unite and GMB, two of the UK's biggest unions, have put their support behind the Tooting MP's campaign. The…
Following his embarrassing election defeat to Labour's Naz Shah in Bradford West, former Labour MP George Galloway has announced his candidacy in the 2016 Mayor of London race. The Respect Party leader recently began legal proceedings over…
London Mayor hopeful Sadiq Khan has pledged today to make efforts to win back over Hindu voters, following polling showing that at this election more Hindus voted Tory than Labour for the first time ever. Survation polling released this…
Alan Johnson has given his public support to Tessa Jowell's bid to become the Labour candidate for next year's Mayor of London election. Although an MP in Hull, Johnson was born and raised in London - and his memoirs detailing growing up in…
Sadiq Khan, who's in the running to be Labour's candidate for London Mayoral, has made his first big policy announcement today. Khan, who is also the MP for Tooting, said he would introduce a London Living Rent to bring down the price of…
Tessa Jowell, the former MP who's one of eight people hoping to be Labour's candidate to be London Mayor, has set out her plans for the city's housing crisis. In a speech to housing experts, developers and councillors, Jowell will explain…
On Wednesday the applications to be Labour's candidate for London Mayor closed. We now have a list of all the people who have put their names forward to be in the running, and alongside the usual suspects there are a couple of other names…
Until she announced she wouldn’t be running, many thought Margaret Hodge had a chance of being Labour’s next London Mayoral Candidate. When she declared that she wouldn’t enter the race, she said that she would like the next mayor to be a…
