Zac Goldsmith has delayed his live biscuit webchat with Mumsnet – but Labour MP Dan Jarvis steps in April 26, 2016 It's been a politically charged week at Mumsnet HQ. The Highgate-based mothering website received a visit from Labour mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan on Monday, being quizzed everything from London's housing crisis to his favourite type of biscuit (chocolate Hobnobs, FYI). Khan isn't the only candidate in the mayoral race trying to woo the capital's maternal population. Tory hopeful Zac [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Zac Goldsmith says Tube passengers face conditions worse than farmyard animals as Sadiq Khan says the Tories’ “Donald Trump approach” won’t work April 25, 2016 Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has warned commuters that they will face conditions on the Tube that would be illegal for farmyard animals unless there is further investment in the transport network. Speaking with less than two weeks until London goes to the polls to vote on Boris Johnson's successor, Goldsmith said that the situation passengers [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Sadiq Khan did a live web chat with Mumsnet and we found out what his favourite biscuit is April 25, 2016 Labour hopeful Sadiq Khan may be the bookies' favourite to win the mayoral election, but his campaign shows no signs of slowing. The MP for Tooting spent Monday lunchtime at Mumsnet HQ in Highgate, while London's mothers flocked straight to their computers to quiz the candidate on everything from housing to his biscuit preferences. Mums across [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson urges business not to allow Zac Goldsmith to use City Hall to push the UK out of the EU April 25, 2016 The City and London’s wider business community has been urged by a Labour grandee not to allow Tory mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith to “use City Hall as a vanguard for the Brexit campaign”. In his first intervention in the mayoral election, Lord Peter Mandelson exclusively told City A.M. that he wants to call on the business [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Labour’s Sadiq Khan is running away with it as he leads Zac Goldsmith by 20 points April 22, 2016 Labour's Sadiq Khan has extended his lead over Zac Goldsmith with just two weeks to go until the London mayoral election. A new poll, which reflects how Londoners will actually vote, shows Khan stretched his lead over Goldsmith to 20 points. Khan has increased his lead over Goldsmith, his closest rival, after distributing second preferences, according [...]
TfL names new Tube boss as Australian transport executive Mark Wild April 19, 2016 Transport for London has named an Australian transport executive as the new boss of the Tube. Mark Wild will join TfL in June, taking over from interim managing director Nick Brown. Wild is currently special adviser to the minister and secretary of the state government of Victoria. He was also chief executive of Public Transport Victoria, the [...]
Londoners are happy to pay £15 daily congestion charge to improve air quality and transport in the capital April 19, 2016 Mayor of London Boris Johnson has warned that his successor, no matter who it is, will have to raise the congestion charge. Currently standing at £11.50, Johnson has said that the next mayor will have to increase this or introduce "smart charging" at peak times, especially if they want to introduce schemes such as pedestrianising [...]
London mayoral election 2016: What do financial traders think will happen on 5 May? April 19, 2016 With just over two weeks until London elects its next mayor, polls are showing Sadiq Khan leading over Zac Goldsmith, with other candidates expected to finish some way behind the pair. But while Khan and Goldsmith are not a million miles apart in the polls – or indeed with bookmakers – they are with financial [...]
Prime London property, revolting shareholders and the return of austerity: Here’s what got us talking this week April 15, 2016 We watched an all-singing imagining of what life would be like with Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister. We discovered the five things that make us happy. And we mourned the loss of the man who reminded us to Mind the Gap. Keep smiling, little one – the over 65s are actually the happiest people in [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Is Boris Johnson helping Zac Goldsmith win support over rival Sadiq Khan? April 15, 2016 "We’ve done incredibly well under Boris." "London’s the most important city in the world and I think Boris Johnson can take credit for that." "Boris has shown how to bang the drum across the world." Love him or loathe him, it’s hard to say Boris Johnson hasn’t had an impact. Yet, the above quotes are all from [...]