Sadiq Khan open to decriminalisation of cannabis: ‘Drugs trade causes huge damage,’ says Mayor of London May 12, 2022 SADIQ Khan is open to supporting a campaign to make cannabis legal in the UK as he visited a marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles yesterday.
Tech giants need to crack down on racist abuse online, says Sadiq Khan May 10, 2022 Sadiq Khan said tech giants need to ‘act sensibly’ and not wait for governments to bring in regulations
Trump’s presidency drove racist abuse, according to GLA analysis as Musk set to drop Twitter ban May 10, 2022 Donald Trump’s election as President spurred on racist abuse against London Mayor Sadiq Khan, fresh analysis from the Greater London Authority has suggested as Elon Musk said he plans to lift the Twitter ban on the former US leader. According to the GLA, the number of abusive tweets the Mayor was subjected to rose by [...]
Scrap National Insurance hike to ease cost of living, says Khan May 10, 2022 BORIS Johnson should cut National Insurance contributions in a bid to ease the cost of living, Sadiq Khan has said during a trip to the US. The Queen’s speech, delivered today, did not include further measures to ease the burden of sky-high gas prices and the Prime Minister warned that “we cannot spend our way [...]
Khan: London should hold Olympics again by 2050 May 10, 2022 Sadiq Khan has said London should host the Olympics again
New York’s slice of London in Sadiq Khan £10m tourism campaign May 10, 2022 NEW York was treated to a slice of London yesterday, as a handful of Coldstream guards who ordinarily stand watch at Buckingham Palace took to Times Square for the launch of a £10m campaign to lure American tourists back to the capital. Sadiq Khan was met with an enthusiastic reception from the likes of tourists [...]
Baseball back to London as MLB chief says he’d “love” a team in the capital in next decade May 9, 2022 BIG LEAGUE baseball will be back in London next year, with the sport’s most important figure saying he would “love” to have a team based in London permanently. Major League Baseball (MLB) will play a series of games in the capital over the next five years after the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan struck a [...]
Sadiq Khan: London must make ’the most of Brexit’ and attract US talent and investment May 9, 2022 SADIQ Khan said London “needed to make the most of Brexit” as he met with big business leaders in the US yesterday. The Mayor of London is in New York as part of the first leg of his trip to the US in a bid to drive tourism to the capital. He said yesterday his [...]
Boris Johnson never left election mode to make sense of his patchwork of policies May 6, 2022 Boris Johnson was made for elections, he was built to shake hands and make people laugh - the guy you’d like to go for a beer with, is the oft-cited description of the Prime Minister. But since taking up office in 2019 with a storming majority, Johnson has stayed firmly in election-mode and never actually started governing.
Explainer-in-brief: Whitehall’s 19th century work-from-office edict April 26, 2022 Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the last bastions of a bygone era in Parliament, has demanded civil servants return to their desks with a reminder of everything they’ve been missing – passive aggressive notes from colleagues. The minister for – and read this slowly – government efficiency left notes for civil servants not at their desks [...]
