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By Len Duvall AM The fares we have just had imposed on us by Boris Johnson and George Osborne - which will really start to hit home when Londoners in large numbers go back to work on tomorrow - summarises unfair Tory London. This is the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Boris Johnson has been having a time to forget lately (cominging disappearing at crucial moments, and claiming that London transport is operating normally when it's anything but) and he's walked into…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk London Mayor Boris Johnson has already caught the eye this year for his promise to fight "Kosovo style social cleansing" and disappearing while huge train fare hikes were announced - but over the weekend…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk In a letter to the Evening Standard released today, London's Labour leaders - including Ken Livingstone, MPs, council leaders, assembly members and trade union leaders - have attack the "raw deal" that…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Ken Livingstone has today unveiled London Assembly member Val Shawcross as Labour's deputy mayoral candidate for London. Speaking today, Livingstone described Shawcross as: "An extremely able, competent…
By Claude Moraes MEP At Labour's National Policy Forum on Saturday, Ed Miliband restated Labour's absolute commitment to tackling climate change and to keeping the environmental agenda at the centre of UK politics. It is understandable that…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Although Boris Johnson campaigned on a platform of establishing a "no strike" agreement with London transport unions, the mayor hasn't even met with union representatives in the two years since he took…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Today it was announced that London will face above average train fare rises. Never one to miss a photo opportunity we'd have expected to hear from the Mayor today, but it doesn't sounds like anyone has…
By Sarah Hayward / @Sarah_Hayward Nick Clegg's comments on housing benefit at yesterday's Deputy Prime Minister's Questions should be deeply worrying for Londoners and the local councils who will have to deal with the fall out of these…
By Rachael Saunders / @rachaelsaunders Thursday night, the night Labour lost Tower Hamlets, felt like a bit of a flashback. The venue was different, York Hall instead of Canary Wharf's Winter Gardens, but Oliur Rahman and Rania Khan were…
By James Murray We are all awaiting further details of what the government's announcements on housing yesterday are likely to mean. But the initial conclusions from their decisions to cut capital funding for new social housing by half, and…
By Ken Livingstone The Mayor of London's own party has just opened up a vicious attack on the quality of life of Londoners and he is culpable, having called for them to be elected and acted as a pioneer for higher fares and making cuts to…
