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Latest polling in the race for the Labour nomination for London Mayor shows that Dame Tessa Jowell in still the one to beat - although with so many yet to make up their mind, it is a wide open contest. It is the first poll of Labour…
“It was never my intention to nibble around the edges with policies of timid maintenance; I ran to take dead aim at the crisis of our time” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at conference on Wednesday. He explained how his Mayoral campaign…
For many Labour activists knocking on doors in Scotland in the last few weeks, it wasn’t political division that was most evident but rather the enthusiasm, the energy, and the engagement of the electorate. This was a vote that really got…
Could Margaret Hodge run for Mayor of London? Rumours were circulating in Westminster earlier this summer than the Public Accounts Committee Chair was having second thoughts about a London-wide tilt, but it seems she's still interested. In…
Over The Telegraph today, Stephen Bush reports that Tessa Jowell and Andrew Adonis will now run on a joint ticket for the Labour nomination for London Mayor. He says: "It now looks likely that Adonis will be given the deputy brief, with…
A month ago, Mark Ferguson took to the pages of the Evening Standard to warn against contenders for the London Mayor Labour nomination throwing their hats in the ring before 2015: "By announcing their candidacy before May 2015, Labour…
David Lammy has announced he intends to run for London Mayor today. He is the second candidate to declare they are seeking the Labour nomination (Christian Wolmar announced in Autumn 2012), and the first MP to come forward with their…
David Lammy has announced he will seek the Labour nomination for London Mayor. In an interview in tonight's Evening Standard (not online yet - news story here), the Tottenham MP explained his vision for the capital: “The kind of mayoralty…
Comic and actor Eddie Izzard has reaffirmed his longstanding commitment to entering electoral politics by 2020, by going for a Labour parliamentary selection or London Mayor. Izzard is a lifelong Labour supporter (and Londoner) and has…
Tessa Jowell has taken on a new role lecturing at the London School of Economics (LSE), which should give her the time to concentrate on a likely campaign to be Labour's candidate for London Mayor. Jowell, who is standing down as an MP next…
Throughout his time at City Hall Boris Johnson has expended a vast amount of hot air trying to claim he represents all of London, for many people though this just doesn’t ring true. That’s why it will come as no surprise that a new report I…
Yesterday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) election results was yet another confirmation of a London bias in the Labour Party. In his analysis of the results, Mark Ferguson noted that only one of the eight candidates elected lives…
