London

By Veronica King / @Vron_King London needs a mayor who calls the big issues right and will stand up for Londoners. Consistently, and on issues of importance to young party members, that candidate is Ken Livingstone. The budget this week…

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Today in Tribune Oona King has begun to lay out in greater detail her vision for the capital. As is perhaps to be expected, the pitch begins with what King sees as an advantage held over Livingstone - an…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 It's perhaps not all too surprising, but it's significant nonetheless that Jon Cruddas last night backed Ken to be Labour's candidate for mayor of London. While Oona King's campaign has attracted some support…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Jim Fitzpatrick, one of Oona King's key supporters for her mayoral campaign, has written a strong letter to Ray Collins questioning the process for selections for the Labour candidacy. Fitzpatrick writes: "I…

By Rosna Mortuza Most of you will know Tower Hamlets as a celebrated melting pot of history, culture and diversity. For me, like for so many others, Tower Hamlets is simply Home. The hidden gems of the estates I grew up in, the schools and…

By Ken Livingstone When he coined the phrase "robotics" back in the 1950s, Isaac Asimov got a bit ahead of himself in then imagining that by the early 21st century society would be dependent on intelligent machines. But the ever-growing…

By Darrell Goodliffe One of things that went widely unreported following the general election was the good clutch of local election results for Labour. The gains made were especially striking against 'ConDem' opposition and in a number of…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Oona King has launched her website for her campaign for the London mayoralty at oona4mayor.com. The site features a video of Oona King setting out the main themes of her campaign - which she first laid out in…

By Declan Gaffney In a piece for LabourList on Tuesday, Paul Richards offered some reasons for Ken Livingstone's defeat in the 2008 Mayoral Election: "Most of all, he lost the support in outer London of white, hard-working families." Paul…

By Claude Moraes MEP As someone who has to face a One Member One Vote ballot of all London Labour Party members preceded by a trigger ballot of all 72 London CLPs before I can stand as a Labour MEP candidate for London, I don't want to see…

By Catherine West I am proudly supporting Ken to be Labour's candidate for mayor, and at this crucial time for the party I want to make plain the positive reasons why. Ken's eight years as mayor of London showed his ability to use the…

By Paul Richards For lefties in the 1980s, Ken Livingstone was something of a hero. His leadership of the Greater London Council (GLC) until its abolition in 1986 was a daily act of defiance against Thatcher. Unlike the doctrinaire…