Don’t congratulate Sadiq Khan for delivering the transport London needed 10 years ago Opinion So far, Sadiq Khan's only transport achievements have been to cut the ribbon on new projects that his predecessors started, writes James Ford.
Laila Cunningham: Sadiq Khan has failed Londoners, I will keep you safe Opinion Reform will put police officers back on our streets, restore effective stop and search, prioritise the prosecution of violent and sexual offenders, expand prison capacity and deport foreign criminals, says Laila Cunningham I spent years prosecuting criminals. I’ve stood in courtrooms, listened to victims and seen the devastation crime leaves behind. I thought I understood [...]
Khan climbdown: Palantir settles £50m Met row after fears of ‘unlawful’ bias Tech Palantir has settled its High Court battle with Sadiq Khan’s policing office over a blocked £50m Metropolitan Police contract, following concerns that the decision had been unlawfully influenced by the US tech giant’s values and ethics. City AM understands the company pursued legal action not only to challenge the decision, but also to make sure [...]
Most voters – and Londoners – back third runway at Heathrow October 13, 2026 Almost half of the British electorate back a third runway at Heathrow airport, with Londoners among the biggest supporters, according to fresh research. City AM/Freshwater Strategy polling has shown that 46 per cent of voters support a new runway at Heathrow. The data revealed that 20 per cent opposed the expansion, while 32 per cent [...]
Sadiq Khan: Run international trains from Stratford instead of expanding Heathrow October 8, 2026 With more Brits supporting increasing international rail over expanding airports, connecting Stratford to Europe is a no-brainer, writes Sadiq Khan.
Wetherspoon boss blasts Soho’s ‘barmy’ vertical drinking crackdown October 4, 2026 JD Wetherspoon boss Sir Tim Martin has blasted Westminster Council’s “barmy” curbs on vertical drinking, which he said are “inhibiting business”. Martin, the chairman of Britain’s best-known pub chain, has waded into a row over the Council’s restrictions on so-called “vertical drinking” in Soho and an effective ban on new pubs and bars in the [...]
James Cleverly: I will fight Labour’s anti-London ‘mansion tax’ October 1, 2026 London will be hit the hardest if Andy Burnham lowers the threshold for the ‘mansion tax’ to £1.5m – which only gets you a flat or an ordinary terraced house in many parts of the capital, says James Cleverly Andy Burnham’s Family Homes Tax is yet another attack on London. Last year, Rachel Reeves announced [...]
Why are so many London buses crashing? October 1, 2026 The number of buses crashing in London is up by a fifth in seven years, but City Hall seems unconcerned. James Ford is worried Something is going badly wrong with London’s buses. On average, every day a staggering 44 London buses crash. That is an increase of nearly 20 per cent on 2019 (which is [...]
E-bike giants back Khan bid to end London ‘Wild West’ September 29, 2026 London’s leading e-bike operators have backed Sadiq Khan’s bid to end the capital’s regulatory ‘Wild West’ while piling pressure on the government to get a long-awaited city-wide licensing regime into force. Lime, Forest and Voi welcomed new plans to replace London’s borough-by-borough wars with a single framework overseen by Transport for London (TfL), after years [...]
Andy Burnham can’t treat Heathrow expansion as a local planning issue September 29, 2026 Has Andy Burnham’s commitment to devolution morphed into a convenient excuse not to lead? I ask, because he seems to have excused himself from the debate about a critical £50bn national infrastructure project: Heathrow’s third runway. The project has been debated since the 1980s but officially kicked off in 2003 when Labour’s Alistair Darling, then [...]