London can be top of the pile for skills and tech: New York shows us how August 19, 2015 Everyone in this city has their own story. Mine, like so many Londoners, is of someone whose parents moved here to make a better life for themselves and their family. And now, as my campaign picks up momentum, I’m fighting hard to become Labour’s candidate to be mayor of London. What an incredible honour. I [...]
Sadiq Khan gains backing of Neil Kinnock to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London August 18, 2015 Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has pledged his support to Sadiq Khan to become the Labour candidate for London mayor. Writing for the Mirror, Kinnock said: “Labour must recapture City Hall, and our best chance of doing that is with Sadiq Khan as our candidate for London mayor in 2016.” Read more: Meet London mayor [...]
Did Sadiq Khan just become the new front-runner for Mayor of London? August 18, 2015 Labour mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan has received a massive boost thanks to a new Survation poll showing he would beat Conservative front-runner Zac Goldsmith in a head-to-head race for City Hall. When Survation asked 1,000 Londoners if they would vote for Khan, Goldsmith or “another party’s candidate”, a surprising 50 per cent said they would [...]
London mayoral elections: Tackling air quality is a priority, but we must go beyond the nanny-state approach in addressing pollution August 11, 2015 At their hustings last week the six Labour mayoral hopefuls called on Londoners to change their behaviour to tackle the scourge of air pollution. Dame Tessa Jowell wanted Londoners to give up driving in in their cars. She would pedestrianise the centre of London and only allow electric vehicles to come into London. David [...]
London mayoral hopeful Tessa Jowell: City workers would be better off commuting from Madrid July 28, 2015 London mayoral hopeful Tessa Jowell’s team has been crunching numbers – and it turns out capital dwellers might be better off commuting to the City from Madrid rather than living in London. You read that right. Based on the average cost of commuting from a one-bedroom flat in north London to a job in the [...]
Welfare Bill passes as Labour leadership descends into crisis July 21, 2015 The House of Commons passed government plans for £12bn in welfare cuts last night, including tax credit cuts and welfare caps, while acting Labour leader Harriet Harman suffered a rebellion in the vote. Read more: The government's welfare bill is necessary – but more must be done After five hours of debate, Parliament backed [...]
7/7 London bombing survivor Gill Hicks: 10 years has gone in the blink of an eye but I’ll never go back on the Tube July 7, 2015 Gill Hicks hasn't been on the Tube for 10 years to the day. By the time you're reading this, it could be to the minute. Because Hicks was one of hundreds of people for whom, at 8:50am on 7 July 2005, life changed forever. On that morning she didn't take her usual route to [...]
7/7 London bombings 10th anniversary: Sadiq Khan – “Our spirit of togetherness saw to it that the terrorists failed” July 6, 2015 I can remember all too vividly where I was on the 7th July 2005, when word started filtering through that there had been several explosions on London’s public transport network. I was with my staff in our House of Common's office and all of us were in high spirits as we were still digesting [...]
London mayor hopefuls square off on Heathrow July 1, 2015 PROPOSALS to build a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport are set to take centre stage in the race for City Hall, as mayoral hopefuls plant their flags on all sides of the debate. The Airports Commission’s recommendation yesterday to expand Heathrow has cut across party lines, with Conservative and Labour candidates split over the [...]
Labour mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan wants to pedestrianise Oxford Street June 24, 2015 Sadiq Khan, a frontrunner for the Labour mayoral candidacy, has backed plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street as part of a campaign for cleaner air in the capital. He said he will turn the capital’s flagship shopping street and tourist attraction in to a one and a half mile tree-lined walkway, as he vowed to tackle [...]