The Latest Breaking News from London Assembly

Sadiq Khan accused of 'astounding complacency' in net zero mission

Deputy mayor dismisses concerns Sir Sadiq will ‘swan off into the sunset’ without getting London ‘anywhere near’ net zero carbon emissions

Evening Standard · Mar 4, 2025

Susan Hall says she wants to throw Sadiq Khan into a black hole, in row over London's finances

The row began after the mayor sought to blame Boris Johnson for the Met Police’s current funding gap

Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2025

Are there 'grooming gangs' in London? Sadiq Khan accused of stonewalling Tory questions

Susan Hall asks mayor nine times whether there are ‘rape gangs’ in the capital

Evening Standard · Jan 17, 2025

Concerns raised over impact of Chinese 'super-embassy' on London's 'very stretched' police

Labour and Tory members of the London Assembly were united on Wednesday in their opposition to the proposed embassy in Tower Hamlets

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2024

Sadiq Khan urged to scrap Silvertown and Blackwall Tunnel tolls as 37,000 sign petition

With more than 37,000 signatures, the petition is said to be the largest ever formally received by the London Assembly

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2024

London shops lose record £15m of items due to shoplifting epidemic

National shoplifting figures show shoplifting has risen 30 per cent since the pandemic and the ensuing cost-of-living crisis

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2024

Sadiq Khan ignores deadline to questions over Taylor Swift's VVIP security

The mayor was asked to respond to queries about the megastar’s police protection by November 6 - but has still not replied, and has not said why

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2024

Housebuilding in London 'as bad as during 2008 global banking crisis', says Sadiq Khan

Inability of Londoners to get on housing ladder isn’t because they spend too much on ‘flat whites or Netflix’, says mayor

Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2024

London Assembly urges Sadiq Khan to help asylum seekers with transport costs

Reform UK’s Alex Wilson said ‘British taxpayers will reach a limit when they feel they are being taken advantage of’

Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2024

London Assembly demands 'proper funding' to fix cladding crisis with nearly 2,000 buildings at risk

Only 27 per cent of the high and medium-rise buildings in London found to have dangerous cladding have been remediated

Evening Standard · Nov 5, 2024