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London politics

June 2024

  • Jeremy Corbyn meets striking junior doctors outside St Thomas's hospital: he is wearing a loose short-sleeved cotton shirt and baseball cap and is seen talking to two young, female doctors who wear orange hats with the logo of the British Medical Association and carry placards reading 'pay restoration for doctors' and '£15 an hour is not a fair wage for a junior doctor'.

    Jeremy Corbyn in final push to keep seat amid voter confusion in Islington North

    Hundreds are knocking on doors for longtime MP, often having to remind voters that he is no longer Labour
  • Leanne Mohamad

    ‘People feel very betrayed’: the British Palestinian out to unseat Labour’s Wes Streeting in Ilford

    Leanne Mohamad gave up her Labour membership last year and believes she is in a two-horse race in east London seat
  • Will Gaza cost Labour votes in east London? The view from Ilford – video

    In the run-up to July's election, the Guardian video team will be touring the UK looking at the issues that matter to voters. In a week when an attack on a refugee camp in Rafah and the Labour party's treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen dominated the headlines, we spoke to voters in Ilford – North and South – who were protesting locally about Gaza. We asked whether these issues would make a difference to how they vote in the election, met canvassers getting behind independent candidates, and spoke to business owners about their political priorities

May 2024

  • Diane Abbott looks at camera in red outfit with people around

    Three Labour names in frame with Diane Abbott’s candidacy in doubt

  • An old car being lowered into a car crusher by a crane, seen from below

    Ulez scrappage scheme snarl-ups leave motorists facing crunch

April 2024

  • Ads for 888.com online casino on (clockwise from left) a tube train, saying 'this carriage is now a casino'; on a taxi, saying 'fancy a spin?'; and at a bus stop, saying 'your bus is now a casion'

    Online casino firm 888.com to withdraw UK adverts after backlash

    Ads to be removed from London transport network amid criticism of mayor Sadiq Khan’s ‘baffling’ decision to allow them
  • Tents in the foreground with the Thames and the Houses of Parliament in the background.

    Sadiq Khan pledges to eliminate rough sleeping in London ‘once and for all’

    Khan says he will spend extra £10m on crisis if elected to third term as mayor as numbers reach highest level in a decade
  • Nick Cave. Photograph: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

    Weekend
    Nick Cave on how grief shapes his art, Marina Hyde on the Thames Water crisis, and bread’s role in British society – podcast

    This week, Marina Hyde discusses the Thames Water crisis after a sewage-plagued boat race; Simon Hattenstone interviews Nick Cave, who is about to exhibit his ceramic figurines at the Xavier Hufkens gallery, about art, love, politics and the death of his two sons; and Rachel Dixon investigates bread in Britain and what it tells us about health, wealth and class.

March 2024

  • See Emily played … Gillian Anderson pictured at the Golden Globes, 2024. Photography: Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images

    Weekend
    Gillian Anderson on playing Emily Maitlis; Marina Hyde on the Tories’ misguided attack ad; and the quest to live to 100 – podcast

    This week, Marina Hyde discuss the Tories’ attack ad as they bid to unseat Sadiq Khan; Phil Daoust asks what can he change at 60 to make it to 100; and Eva Wiseman interviews Gillian Anderson as she prepares to play Emily Maitlis in a drama about her interview with Prince Andrew

November 2023

  • Met police stand in front of a crowd of protesters at a demonstration in London.

    Policing Israel-Palestine protests stretching Met resources, commissioner says

    Mark Rowley says Met may need support from other forces amid concerns about effect of policing protests on other duties

September 2023

  • Sadiq Khan with Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah on the first day of the Ulez expansion. Rosamund's daughter Ella died from an asthma attack in 2013.

    Populism has polluted the fight for clean air

  • ‘Politics has got hold and it’s been turned on its head in a bizarre way,’ says Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah.

    How anti-Ulez campaigners misused air pollution finding in Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah death

August 2023

  • Man on a bicycle passing graffiti poster of Einstein on a bike on a red phone box in the Strand, London

    Views on London’s Ulez expansion: ‘Planet and health are more important than cars’

  • A  Ulez sign in Lewisham, south London

    Ulez expansion: Sadiq Khan accuses ministers of ‘weaponising air pollution’

  • A flyer protesting against the ultra-low emission zone in Church Rise in Chessington, south-west London

    London Ulez residents ‘offered £100 a month’ for parking spaces to avoid fee

  • Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) aim to promote ‘active travel’ such as walking or cycling.

    Fixing vandalised LTN infrastructure costs London councils more than £850,000

July 2023

  • Some in Labour believe Sadiq Khan’s policy cost them victory in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

    Sadiq Khan to press ahead with Ulez expansion amid Labour pressure

  • Anti ULEZ demonstrators protest outside the High Court in London. They are opposed to the proposed ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) expansion.

    London mayor has no legal power to expand Ulez zone, high court told

June 2023

  • Daniel Korski

    Furious London Tories fear low-wattage mayor shortlist looks like surrender

    Observers say a strong Tory candidate could get closer to incumbent under new system – but names in frame lack heft

May 2023

  • Head shot of London mayor Sadiq Khan against black background with smoke all around him, May 2023

    Sadiq Khan: ‘I lost my mojo. I wasn’t so sparky. Without a doubt, I was suffering with PTSD’

    Standing up against Trump and fighting against air pollution has made Sadiq Khan a target for the far right. He talks death threats, the toll on his mental health – and why he wants six terms as London mayor. Plus exclusive extract from his new book
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