Canary Wharf could move into Zone 1 in new Transport for London plan to raise fares January 16, 2021 Canary Wharf could move into Zone 1 in new Transport for London plan to raise fares
London has lowest R rate in the UK January 15, 2021 London’s R rate has dropped to the lowest in the UK, according to the latest official figures. The rate of reproduction of the virus has dropped to a best estimate of 0.9 to 1.2, down from a range of 1.1 to 1.4 last week. The figure means London currently has the lowest R rate in [...]
London missing out on ‘fair share’ of vaccine January 14, 2021 London is missing out on its “fair share” of the vaccine, Sadiq Khan has said, as he urged ministers to reassess the formula for distributing doses across the UK. The mayor of London has written an urgent letter to vaccines tsar Nadhim Zahawi calling on him to scale up vaccine supply to meet different population [...]
London Tories: Council tax hike is a result of Mayor’s mistakes January 14, 2021 Londoners are struggling. Businesses are closed. Our city’s streets are empty. And yet, it’s during the worst recession for 300 years, that Sadiq Khan has chosen to ask Londoners to pay for his mistakes. Khan’s whopping council tax rise couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Mayor wants to paint himself as the saviour [...]
Breaking: UK records more than 1,500 daily Covid deaths January 13, 2021 The UK has recorded its highest ever daily Covid death rate, as ministers today warned the “worst is yet to come”. Latest figures from Public Health England showed a further 1,564 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours. The number exceeds the previous record of 1,325 deaths last Friday, and takes the total number of [...]
Ministers mull moving patients to hotels as hospitals become overwhelmed January 13, 2021 The NHS is considering plans to transfer patients to hotels as hospitals become overwhelmed with Covid-19, the health secretary said this morning. Matt Hancock announced the government would not rule out any options to relieve pressures on the NHS and refused to speculate about how long lockdown restrictions could last. The health secretary told BBC [...]
Smart politicians will be looking to cities as a springboard for greatness January 12, 2021 For much of the second half of the 20th century, powerful city politics was dying. As the great industrial centres went into decline, so too did their once-proud corporations and mayors. County boroughs like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds were gathered together in 1972 and melded into metropolitan counties like “Merseyside” or “West Midlands”, and [...]
Exclusive: TfL took legal advice on cancelling First Group tram contract after fatal Croydon crash January 12, 2021 Transport for London (TfL) was considering cancelling Tram Operations Limited’s (TOL) contract to run the Croydon tram network in the aftermath of 2016’s fatal crash, but concluded it would be too difficult to do so. City A.M. has obtained TfL documents from 2017 showing that the transport operator received legal advice on whether it could [...]
Exclusive: Sadiq Khan rows with London Assembly over police recruitment numbers January 11, 2021 Sadiq Khan has been asked why he is planning to “spend money he does not have” to hire 6,000 new police officers by March, while the Metropolitan Police budget has a projected £1bn black hole over the next three years. The London Assembly’s Budget and Performance Committee has asked the mayor to explain why he [...]
Keir Starmer calls for 24/7 Covid vaccine programme January 11, 2021 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for the government to “put families first” during this Covid lockdown by extending paid flexible furlough to all working parents, while also calling for the UK’s weekly vaccine target to be doubled to 4m. The Labour leader called for a round the clock vaccine programme, which would see [...]