Shaun Bailey hits out at City of London’s ‘polite drug users’ May 3, 2021 Tory mayor of London candidate Shaun Bailey has hit out at the culture of “polite drug use” in the City, saying that white collar workers need to be a part of the solution to tackling cocaine-fuelled drug violence. Bailey told City A.M. in a wide-ranging interview, to be released later today, that “casual drug use [...]
Central line tube strike expected on polling day April 30, 2021 A 24-hour long Central line tube strike is expected to go ahead on 6 May, a date that coincides with polling day for London’s mayor elections. Central line train operators, Night Tube train operators and instructor operators at Leytonstone, Loughton, West Ruislip & White City Traincrew Depots will take strike action by not booking on [...]
Mayor of London election: Minor candidates create a race within a race April 27, 2021 This year’s mayor of London election has set a record for the most ever candidates – a 20-strong field of career politicians, chancers, grifters, oddballs, cranks, culture warriors and earnest small party hopefuls. The race itself has provided little interest for the public at large, with a Sadiq Khan victory a foregone conclusion at a [...]
IPL suffers spate of withdrawals, including Ravichandran Ashwin, as Covid-19 cases top 350,000 per day in India April 26, 2021 The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been hit by a series of player withdrawals amid growing concern about Covid-19 rates in the country. India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the most high-profile cricketer to walk away from the lucrative Twenty20 competition when he announced he was “taking a break” on Sunday. Australian trio Kane Richardson, Adam [...]
Opponents hit out at Khan over pledge to scrap higher Congestion Charge April 26, 2021 Sadiq Khan has pledged to attempt to scrap the “temporary” £15 congestion charge if he is reelected as Mayor of London in May, prompting a wave of criticism from his opponents. The Labour Mayor raised the charge from £11.50 last June in order to secure a government bailout for Transport for London (TfL) amid the [...]
Exclusive: London mayor candidate faces calls to pull out for hosting antisemitic video April 23, 2021 Independent mayor of London candidate Brian Rose is facing calls to pull out of the race over a video on his website that contains a slew of antisemitic conspiracy theories by conspiracy theorist David Icke. The video in question, from 2019, features Icke telling Rose in detail about how 9/11 was a plot hatched by [...]
‘Bitter’ Dominic Cummings accused of leaking Boris Johnson’s text messages to James Dyson and Mohammed bin Salman April 23, 2021 Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings has been blamed for the leaking of the Prime Minister’s text messages. An internal inquiry has been launched into how messages between the Prime Minister and billionaire Sir James Dyson were leaked to journalists. But reports said Downing Street sources are pointing the finger at Cummings, who quit as [...]
Sadiq Khan and Shaun Bailey row over ‘ludicrous’ £4.68bn tax bombshell claims April 22, 2021 Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Sadiq Khan have today clashed over claims that the incumbent London mayor would raise taxes by £4.68bn over the next three years if re-elected. Bailey said today that Khan’s plans would mean households would have to pay £1,339 more in tax, however this figure comes mostly from a proposed [...]
London Mayoral elections: Whoever wins, scratchy relations with Downing Street must be mended to fight for the capital April 22, 2021 The Covid crisis has laid bare some of the UK’s harshest inequalities, nowhere more starklythan in London. East London boroughs have seen some of the highest death rates in thecountry, and London’s unemployment rate has soared. But other boroughs have some ofthe country’s lowest death rates, and the city that has lost most jobs has [...]
Boris Johnson government most ‘awful environment I’ve ever worked in’, says ex-minister April 21, 2021 Boris Johnson’s government is the “the most distrustful, awful environment I’ve ever worked in”, according to recently sacked veterans minister Johnny Mercer. Mercer said today that the government was guilty of a “gross betrayal of people who signed up to serve in the military”. Mercer, who set up the Veterans Office in 2019, was preparing [...]