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The Conservatives have finally come out of their shell and we have some candidates. And what a bunch they are. First up to announce was Ivan Massow, the phoenix-like, risen-from-the-ashes finance entrepreneur who calls Joan Collins his…
It is argued by Tories such as Boris Johnson that the mansion tax is anti-London because most homes affected are in the capital. This is nonsense. We might as well argue that any redistributive measure is automatically proportionately…
Sadiq Khan, Shadow Justice Secretary and Shadow Minister for London has said that he thinks the Greens and Ukip should be included in the TV debates. Khan, who is also head of Labour's anti-Green Party strategy, said in an interview with…
Yesterday a press release came out from Scottish Labour confirming that the party's first election pledge - 1,000 new nurses for Scotland funded by the Mansion Tax. We covered the story last night, but there wasn't a great deal of interest…
Several potential Labour candidates for London Mayor have hit out at Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, following his comments concerning the Mansion Tax funding extra nurses in Scotland. Announcing his pledge of a thousand more nurses…
This Friday, while a lot of Londoners are still off work and enjoying their Christmas break, Transport for London are surreptitiously implementing their annual fare increase. Sneaking through this increase on a Friday while many are still…
Tessa Jowell remains favourite to run for London Mayor among the capital's Labour voters, according to a new poll. A YouGov poll for the Evening Standard has Jowell increasing her support to 26%, well ahead of nearest contender Diane…
Transport for London is London’s biggest and arguably least accountable quango. Bossed by the Mayor, in practice it is answerable to no one in London apart from him. Londoners have virtually no say in what it does. Fares go up with…
The words “rent control” are anathema to housing policy wonks and Westminster politicians. They react rather as a vampire presented with garlic and are reduced to babbling about the sacrosanct nature of the market. But the truth is that…
Luciana Berger picked me up from Liverpool Lime Street station on a Friday morning in her little car. It’s spotless (it turns out it’s been cleaned before I arrived. I feel honoured). Berger has had the car for years, she explains as we…
Two anniversaries of events thirty years ago beg the question of the next Mayor of London - should the Greater London Authority and its Mayor be building social housing directly themselves? 1984 saw the birth of Coin Street Community…
George Osborne’s announcement earlier this week of some extra NHS funding only confirmed that much-loved institution and its funding woes are set to take centre stage at the next election. But in the battle over A&E departments and hospital…
