There is something peculiarly irritating about an abandoned Tube station. From what little I can recall of the world before the pandemic, it was generally agreed to be A Good Thing to make it as easy...

London Assembly members have called on Sadiq Khan to boycott developers and housing associations that have failed to take action to protect leaseholders in fire risk properties following the Grenfell...

Seven big city Mayors from across England have come together to restate support for people across the country facing desperate financial straits because they’ve fallen through gaps in the governmen...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has asked Transport for London to continue making wearing a face-covering a requirement of travelling on its services after the government ceases to make it compulsory on all...

Redfield and Wilton's survey finds more than twice as many think Khan has been good than bad and he leads field as best in the job yet

For London, the “months and years ahead are going to be extremely tough,” with “major structural change affecting the city” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sadiq Khan warned today.  But “the...

We live in a world full of deadlines. Some of those deadlines are small hurdles and easy to jump. Others are huge, looming over us and casting long shadows across our lives. For leaseholders caught...

Divisions over a controversial low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) scheme in Enfield have deepened, with a long-standing Labour councillor siding with opposition Enfield Council members to call for an...

The provision of new dedicated cycling infrastructure has yet to attract a wider range of Londoners travelling by bicycle, according to an update on cycling trends produced by Transport for London....

Transport for London will receive up to £1.8 billion from the government in further emergency funding for the next six months and will not have to extend the capital’s congestion charge zone or scrap...

London’s new Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes should not have been introduced without prior local consultation, a Labour member of the London Assembly has said. Speaking at think tank Centre for...

Sadiq Khan has extended his lead in the London Mayor election campaign to 22 points, an increase of two compared with last month, according to a new opinion poll. The incumbent Mayor was found to be...

Lots of thinking and talking are going on about how London might change as a result of the pandemic, including its streets and places of work. What would a “new normal” be like? How would it be...

The devastating fire at Grenfell Tower has had ramifications far beyond the terrible destruction it wrought on that day in 2017. As the sheer scale of the use of unsafe cladding on buildings in the...

In London, almost 250,000 households are on waiting lists for social housing. Stuck for space to build and with Londoners increasingly concerned about worsening housing costs, public authorities are...

Sadiq Khan has urged the government to delay the re-opening of secondary schools for in-person learning until later in January than currently planned, as ministers are reported to be reviewing its...

Liberal Democrat London Mayor candidate Siobhan Benita has launched her bid for City Hall with headline pledges to bring down levels of homelessness, violent crime and air pollution and a stress on...

It is tempting to split discussions of rail policy onto two parallel tracks. Following the privatisation of the early 1990s, that has tended to mean that we talk about the infrastructure and the...

Flowers, candles and the word “hero” have been left near the scene of the incident at London Bridge

Transport for London will receive up to £1.8 billion from the government in further emergency funding for the next six months and will not have to extend the capital’s congestion charge zone or scrap...

Groups supporting the leadership of Keir Starmer have made big gains at the expense of Momentum activists in elections at the London Labour conference, strengthening their confidence that the party...

Responsible mainly for public transport, TfL is also the capital’s third biggest landlord

Londoners are more likely to hold the UK government responsible for recent reduced funding for the Metropolitan Police and for levels of violent crime in their city than they are City Hall, according...

Between 2000 and 2008 London’s bus services were transformed. There were more buses, more bus routes and, critically, services were more reliable. An unreliable and often overcrowded service was...

Green Party London Mayor candidate Siân Berry formally launched her election campaign today, highlighting a range of proposals to “strengthen the rights” of London’s rising number of private renting...

The new scrutiny body will be made up of Londoners with a wide range of life experiences and specialist knowledge

A Labour councillor in Wandsworth has been suspended by the party and prevented from seeking re-election on 5 May after writing on Twitter that Chancellor Rishi Sunak “should go back to India with...

The first action of the newly-elected Labour leader of Ealing last month was significant. Peter Mason announced the immediate ending of the West Ealing LTN (Low Traffic Neighbourhood) and a guarantee...

The new Star Wars movie is a very big affair, but it loses none of its, ah, force when viewed in a small cinema. Screen 2 at the Castle Cinema on Brooksby’s Walk in Homerton is very small indeed,...

Sadiq Khan has called on the government to provide “emergency investment” in more than 340,000 social rent homes in London which City Hall says are falling short of the national Decent Homes Standa...

For some people, the Tube map is the map of London. The network’s north London bias is almost certainly a big reason why, until relatively recently, south London remained terra incognita to many, and...

With government having launched an invasion of City Hall by means of its emergency funding agreement for London’s transport network back in May, Transport for London on Friday issued its emergency...

Since he was elected in May 2016 it has been Sadiq Khan’s policy that 50 per cent of housing built on public land under his control should meet his definition of being “genuinely affordable”....

I am an active Labour Party member in North London. But I am also a rabbi, leading a local Jewish community. The last few years have been a deeply difficult time for me. The decision to remain a...

Keir Starmer launched Labour’s nationwide local election campaign in Barnet on 8 April. The choice of launchpad is often an indicator of confidence: in 2014 Ed Miliband went to Redbridge, which...

Sadiq Khan’s £1 billion Silvertown road tunnel plan may not be on everyone’s radar yet, but that’s likely to change as this year’s mayoral election campaigning gets underway. The controversial...

Sadiq Khan has produced videos providing health advice in Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi and Hindi in an attempt to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on South Asian Londoners. The Mayor introduces all four of...

He's saved elephants in Namibia, led big communications firms and been mugged in Vauxhall. What does bring to the race for City Hall?

London’s Liberal Democrats have named a shortlist of two contenders to be their new candidate for London Mayor following the withdrawal of original choice Siobhan Benita in July. Party members will...

London Conservatives believe their hopes of winning back London are being hampered by what they see as anti-motorist policies pursued by Boris Johnson and his transport adviser Andrew Gilligan, with...

Londoners get two votes for London Mayor – a first preference and a second. This means they can vote with their hearts (for the candidate they like best) and with their heads (for the candidate with...

Labour’s first ever Westminster City Council (WCC) elections win in May did not usher into power a band of callow innocents at risk of rude awakenings when faced with the practicalities of power. The...

Agreement has been reached to enable humanitarian and medical to benefit without donors losing their financial compensation

Sadiq Khan has visited the factory in Northern Ireland making electric double decker buses for London, claiming that such suppliers in other parts of the country risk losing work if  government...

The latest Transport for London figures point to continuing problems for the capital's most used public transport mode

Sadiq Khan has visited the factory in Northern Ireland making electric double decker buses for London, claiming that such suppliers in other parts of the country risk losing work if  government...

At an event in the south of the capital he prioritised TfL finances, accelerating house building and his headline pledge to "fix the Met"

Camden Councillor Luisa Porritt has been confirmed as the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, bringing to an end a selection process marred by the removal of her only rival from an earlier...

Fortune Green is a lovely name for a ward. It conjures up a pot of gold nestling in the greensward at the end of the rainbow. The real place is attractive, but not quite that legendary. It was one of...

Liberal Democrat London Mayor candidate Siobhan Benita has repeated her call for “a sensible conversation about drugs reform” as part of a strategy for reducing criminal violence in London, stressing...

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that nothing is certain in life except death and taxes, but I would posit a third: NIMBYism. This time it concerns the redevelopment of the Goodmayes Tesco Extra in...

The last business of the London borough elections of 2022 was concluded yesterday with a by-election in South Croydon, producing a comfortable Conservative win. The election was needed because Jason...