September 29, 2011
Nicky Gavron, Labour’s London Assembly housing and planning spokesperson, has called on Mayor Boris Johnson to come clean over claiming credit for 16,000 affordable homes that will never be delivered. Nicky has this morning written to Richard Blakeway, the Mayor’s housing adviser, to explain why he has apparently double counted around 16,000 affordable homes. Blakeway ...
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September 14, 2011
Yesterday, a delegation from Islington Pensioners Forum travelled to City Hall to deliver a clear message to the Mayor of London and the big energy companies –they must do more to help people who are falling into fuel poverty. The delegation – which included both of Islington’s Older People’s Champions and Cllr Janet Burges, Islington’s ...
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Health,
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social conscience,
warm front scheme
August 10, 2011
Responding to Boris Johnson’s call for the government to reconsider police cuts, Len Duvall (pictured), leader of the Labour group on the London Assembly and former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said: “One of Boris Johnson’s first acts as mayor was to announce cuts of hundreds of police officers in London. And during the ...
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political opportunism,
pressure
August 10, 2011
The destruction and looting across London that has spread to other cities in England, although notably not Wales or Scotland yet, has received the wholehearted condemnation of politicians of all colours and below we print a sample of their unabridged statements. Alone amongst the politicians, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party has called ...
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progress,
recession,
Riots,
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