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You know your policy must be bad when even the people who stand to gain condemn it. That’s what has happened with the Government’s latest proposals to exempt developers from affordable housing contributions if they convert empty office…
Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, has officially ruled herself out of contention for London Mayor. According to political editor Joe Murphy, Hodge has announced the decision in an interview with the London Evening Standard, which will be…
London in housing crisis! That’s the view of 76% of Londoners according to a report out last week from the Chartered Institute of Housing. The findings make for grim, yet unsurprising reading, suggesting there is now little doubt…
This Sunday I'll be joining a team of Labour activists in a London 3 Seat Challenge. We're heading to Harrow East to help Uma Kumaran, Hendon for Andrew Dismore, and then Finchley and Golders Green for Sarah Sackman. (It will be cold, but…
Ed Miliband recently said that Prime Minister's Questions "puts people off politics". Last week, Mark Ferguson agreed, asking what it had to do with life. This week, Cameron joined the chorus, saying PMQs "is a nightmare" when questioned by…
New polling for the London Mayoral race shows Tessa Jowell is still the most popular candidate among Labour supporters in London - and has even more support among Londoners as a whole. The retiring Dulwich and Norwood MP comes top of…
Labour members of the London Assembly today revealed their alternative budget for the capital, which places an emphasis on helping Londoners with the cost of living. Labour's budget spokesperson on the assembly, John Biggs AM, will publish…
Update: Three more polls out this evening - and all three put Labour behind the Tories by one point. It's the first time Survation has had the Tories ahead in this Parliament, and the first time ComRes has recorded a Tory lead since 2011…
It is easy to get on the bandwagon to oppose a new tax. The mansion tax may have flaws but it represents the restoration of some rationale to property taxation in the UK and therefore it is very important to get behind the principles…
It is widely acknowledged that when Boris leaves the Mayoralty next year he will leave behind a trail of broken promises, but perhaps the most shameful of these is his broken promise to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) parents: that…
Tessa Jowell has launched an attack on London property owners who leave their houses and flats empty in the midst of a housing crisis in the capital. In an article for The Independent, the potential Mayoral candidate slams the "global super…
Tessa Jowell has given a major interview with the Evening Standard, touching on what issues drive her ambition to become Mayor of London. It seems this largely comes down to two topics: inequality and childhood. The first 1,000 days of a…
