Exclusive: Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey calls for £104m ’emergency crime budget’ February 24, 2020 Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey will attach an amendment to the mayor’s budget in an attempt to inject an extra £104m to the Metropolitan Police’s coffers. The London Assembly will vote on Sadiq Khan’s £17bn 2020-21 mayoral budget at City Hall today. The 25 assembly members can successfully add amendments to the budget, or over [...]
Mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita wants to ‘Love London Better’ February 22, 2020 For a brief moment in 2019, the Liberal Democrats looked a serious chance of upending Britain’s two-party political hegemony. After years in the political wilderness, the party rode a wave of Brexit uncertainty and parliamentary division to top Westminster YouGov polling in late May, eliciting cries of jubilation from long suffering Lib Dem supporters. It’s [...]
Coronavirus: Tokyo hits back at ‘inappropriate’ suggestions London could host 2020 Olympics February 21, 2020 Tokyo governor Yurilo Koike has labelled claims London would be ready to host the 2020 Olympics if necessary as “inappropriate”. While a number of sporting events having been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, Japan has been determined to get this year’s Olympic Games on. Earlier this week, the Conservative Party’s London mayoral candidate Shaun [...]
Barclays forgot about the humans in HR February 21, 2020 Barely a day goes by without a think tank, employers’ group or minister talking about the need to improve the productivity or British business, and while this generally conjures up images of factory floors it’s reassuring to know that investment banks are also searching for elusive gains. How else to explain the decision by Barclays [...]
Mayor of London election candidates have £420,000 campaign spending limit February 20, 2020 Candidates in the 2020 mayor of London election will have a limit of £420,000 to spend during the official campaign. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will go head-to-head with Tory candidate Shaun Bailey, independent candidate Rory Stewart, Liberal Democrat Siobhan Benita and Green party co-leader on 7 May. Khan’s odds are as short as 1/7 [...]
Keir Starmer refuses to sign Khan’s London pledges February 20, 2020 Labour leadership frontrunner Sir Keir Starmer has refused to sign a set of so-called London pledges drawn up by Sadiq Khan. City A.M. exclusively reported last week that the mayor of London had asked the remaining three party leadership candidates — Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Nandy — to sign a set of six pledges aimed [...]
TfL ‘service performance’ complaints skyrocket in new figures February 20, 2020 Commuter complaints to Transport for London (TfL) skyrocketed in 2019, with complaints about service performance increasing by 62 per cent in just two years. TfL logged 110, 072 complaints from travellers in 2018-19, which was 19 per cent higher than two years earlier. More than 25,000 of these were around issues of “service performance” – [...]
EU immigration proposals bad for London, says mayoral candidate Rory Stewart February 19, 2020 The government’s newly released EU immigration proposals have been rubbished by Rory Stewart, with the mayoral candidate claiming he would fight them if elected. Home secretary Priti Patel launched the new immigration plan today, saying the government wanted “economically inactive” Britons to take the place of low-skilled foreigners. As a part of the new points-based [...]
Green mayoral candidate to launch campaign with swipe at Khan’s environmental record February 19, 2020 Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry will launch her campaign today by accusing Sadiq Khan of being disingenuous about his environmental record. The Green party co-leader is expected to criticise the mayor of London for his support of the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel and airport expansions, while labelling his environmental policies as “lip service” to “green issues”. [...]
Exclusive: Bailey calls for London to host Olympics if coronavirus forces Tokyo move February 18, 2020 Former Sports minister says hosting would be “perfectly possible” as spokesman for Sadiq Khan says the capital would be ready if asked to deliver CONSERVATIVE mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has said the Summer Olympics and Paralympics could be hosted in London if the Games are forced to move due to the coronavirus outbreak – as [...]