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I've written a piece for the London Evening Standard today on the London Mayoral race post-Boris, including an analysis of the current runners and riders for the seat. The list of potential candidates is pretty established now - Tessa…
Tessa Jowell has reacted to the news that Boris Johnson is planning to run as an MP - and dropped a massive hint that she'll be standing for London Mayor, saying she's "taking this time to prepare my potential offer to Londoners". Jowell…
Speaking at the launch of Labour’s summer campaign last week Ed Miliband said “We need a new leadership: Leadership that thinks deeply and offers creative, new ideas. Leadership that seeks to be faithful to principle, even when it’s hard…
The Evening Standard have released their latest polling in the race for Labour's candidate for London Mayor. Once again, Tessa Jowell maintains her lead amongst all voters, with 12% (up one point since the last poll a month ago) and Diane…
The London Underground is the single most important piece of public infrastructure in the capital. Over three million people use the Tube each day, to get to work, visit family or see friends. A healthy Underground network is at the heart…
The commonly held view is that a Labour candidate will almost certainly be the next Mayor of London. The capital has steadily shifted towards the left as Labour control ever more councils, and in some areas the Greens are now the second…
On Monday Labourlist reported on the most recent poll on Labour’s candidates for the 2016 London mayoral election. It saw Diane Abbott sneak into the lead amongst party supporters but in truth it’s a hollow victory: the most popular answer…
Last month marked the halfway point of Boris Johnson’s second term as Mayor of London, and the completion of his sixth year at the helm at City Hall. So it is fitting that LBC is tonight hosting its annual ‘State of London’ debate in which…
Towards the end of last year, we wrote about a YouGov poll for the Evening Standard, which showed that out of all the potential Labour candidates, Eddie Izzard looked like the favourite - among both all voters polled and also for Labour…
Ed Miliband's decision to pose with a copy of The Sun has understandably angered many in Liverpool, considering how the paper has treated that city. Merseyside MPs are said to have been "livid" with the Labour leader - and Hillsborough…
Like many London councillors, it didn't take long for the doorstep conversations I had during the local election campaign to turn to people's personal experience of the capital's housing crisis. It quickly became clear that when we talk…
It has been a long and hard-fought campaign but on Thursday the people of London voted for change, and along with other major cities, rejected UKIP and voted overwhelmingly for Labour. Croydon went Labour. Merton went Labour. Redbridge went…
