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By Ken Livingstone Like many thousands of others I will be joining the March for the Alternative on 26th March, to make the case against the cuts and higher taxes on the majority imposed by Cameron's government. I will be marching with…
By Tom Miller The afternoon plenary at the weekend's Progressive London conference left the assembled crowd with a few pointers as to how Ken might be looking at national politics, along with some (sensibly placed) uncomfortableness on the…
By John Biggs AM In all likelihood Boris Johnson's £13.6 billion budget will be approved at City Hall's final budget meeting on February 23rd. And while his options were limited by the government's decision to cut his funding for the…
By Jules Pipe Local government faces the toughest financial challenge in living memory and the numbers are stark. In London the recent Local Government Settlement will take over £500 million from local councils this year alone, an 11% cut…
By Veronica King How do we 'judge' the mayor's performance? More importantly, what are the defining factors for how millions of Londoners will judge him when they go to the polls in May 2012? On the basis of the hours I have spent speaking…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk As Tory cuts begin to bite, Boris Johnson has lost his lead over Ken Livingstone in the race to be the next mayor of London in a YouGov poll. 45% of London voters now say they would vote for Livingstone…
By Len Duvall AM I hope that the Progressive London conference session debating the verdict on Boris Johnson will also be an opportunity to discuss how we remove him. In his uncritical support for the financial services sector and his…
By Barry Gardiner MP The Prime Minister talked on Saturday of the importance of having a shared sense of history, yet he chose to give his speech in Munich. If only he had visited Brent before berating the bürgermeisters of Bavaria with his…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk London Labour Party has opened the panel for potential Labour candidates for the London Assembly elections next year, which run alongside the mayoral contest. Candidates will be selected in March and April…
By Andy Slaughter MP / @HammersmithAndy David Davis said at the weekend they may not 'work well in poorer parts of the country'. Sarah Teather said they were a 'shambles' and a 'gimmick' two weeks before becoming Michael Gove's schools…
By Ben Cobley Ken Livingstone visited Wimbledon on Monday - the first stage of his "Tell Ken" tour around the London boroughs building up to the Mayoral election for London in May 2012. You may think that Ken and Wimbledon do not…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Labour has accused the Lib Dems of playing "dirty tricks" in Oldham. * Could the Tories hold the key to tonight's result? * Cameron considers new anti-strike laws. * Union leaders have rejected these…
