Sadiq Khan rules out further Ulez changes if re-elected Sadiq Khan has said in a letter to the capital’s transport commissioner he will not introduce a pay-per-mile scheme. Evening Standard · Mar 24, 2024
Loose ends in London and Birmingham raise new fears over HS2’s route – and future With its route map pruned, leaders in the north want other options, while in the capital, questions are growing over its Euston terminus – still a giant hole in the ground The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2024
‘It’s not going to be a landslide’: how will Sadiq Khan fare in the battle to be London mayor? Khan has long been considered a shoo-in for a third term as mayor. But in a city undergoing huge change, unease is setting in among his team The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2024
Almost 700,000 London bus journeys cut last year, data reveals Sadiq Khan’s spokesman said the mayor had “done everything in his powers to protect bus services across the capital” Evening Standard · Mar 23, 2024
‘This isn’t a game of 4D chess’: Tories braced for bruising local elections Rishi Sunak launches his party’s campaign amid fears of wipeout and internal rumblings about his leadership The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2024
Rishi Sunak tells voters: don't let Keir Starmer 'stroll into Number 10' PM also claims that Sadiq Khan is ‘more interested in virtue signalling than delivering’ Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2024
OPINION - The Standard View: Sadiq Khan is streets ahead of Susan Hall, but voters appear unimpressed Elections are ultimately about who wins and who loses, and to that end Sadiq Khan appears to have little to worry about. With less than six weeks to go until the May 2 election, a new Savanta poll for the Centre for London puts the Labour Mayor on 51 per… Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2024
Susan Hall fails to close huge poll gap with Sadiq Khan 24 points ahead just six weeks to May 2 London mayoral vote Savanta poll for the Centre for London put the Labour mayor on 51 per cent and the Tory contender 27 per cent Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2024
Racist who said Sadiq Khan would be shot in threatening 999 calls spared jail The calls happened hours after inflammatory remarks by former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson aired on GB News Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2024
Sadiq Khan and Board of Deputies push back at Israeli minister over London antisemitism claim Diaspora affairs minister Amichai Chikli has a history of inflammatory rhetoric Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2024
London's £2,000-a-year council tax bombshell as average bill passes landmark in almost half of boroughs Residents in 15 of London’s 33 local authorities will be charged at least £2,000 from April if they are living in Band D properties or higher Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2024
Sadiq Khan says he is 'impatient' for lasting change at Met police one year on from scathing Casey report ‘One year on from the report, it’s clear we still have a long way to go’ Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2024
Ex-Wall Street banker Brian Rose declares he will stand again for London mayor Mr Rose previously stood in the 2021 mayoral election, garnering 1.2 per cent of the vote Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2024
Truth is, spent Sunak might not mind the idea of packing up and going home Keir Starmer takes shots at open goals while PM is running on fumes as the disasters keep coming The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2024
Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2024 Thousands more London homes are stalled amid fire safety uncertainty Tall buildings will soon be required to have second staircases, but lingering uncertainty over the specifics of the rule has delayed thousands of homes
Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2024 Sadiq Khan pledges to use 'lived experience' of women to make London safer It comes after Tory candidate Susan Hall said that the mayor ‘just isn’t listening’ to women about their experiences of harassment and assault
Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2024 Why Sir Keir Starmer’s shied away from Sadiq Khan’s policies - The Standard Podcast Our Local Democracy Reporter Noah Vickers discusses his interview with Sir Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan.
Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2024 London mayoral election: Lib Dems' Rob Blackie takes aim at Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall as he launches campaign The candidate said Labour’s Sadiq Khan ‘blames everyone else’ for failures on crime, while Tory candidate Susan Hall is ‘beyond the pale’
Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024 Keir Starmer shies away from some of Sadiq Khan's key policies but backs mayor for a third term The Labour leader refused to explicitly endorse the mayor’s Ulez expansion, and suggested that he would not allow rent controls in London
Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024 Sadiq Khan and TfL team up with OpenTable to offer restaurant discounts on Fridays The ‘Let’s Do Fridays’ initiative will trial for three months
Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024 OPINION - The Standard View: Keir Starmer joining Sadiq Khan highlights a tale of two mayoral election campaigns The symbolism and shared purpose were unmistakable: the likely next prime minister of the UK standing shoulder to shoulder with the likely next mayor of London, for the launch of Labour’s mayoral election campaign. Despite polling leads, the party is bringing out the big guns and taking nothing for granted.
Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024 Michael Gove 'directs' Sadiq Khan to partially review London Plan in bust-up over new homes for the city The Cabinet minister announced £500,000 of specialist planning support to help the building of 7,200 more homes in Greenwich and Newham
Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024 London mayoral election: Sadiq Khan launches re-election campaign with pledge of 40,000 council homes He stresses the prospect of a Labour government and Labour mayor are a ‘once in a generation” chance to ease London’s housing crisis
The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024 Sadiq Khan promises 40,000 new London council homes if he wins third term Mayor says May election will be ‘closest ever’ and says the contest is ‘once in a generation’ chance to tackle city’s housing crisis
The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2024 Sadiq Khan fears change to voting system could bring London Tory mayor Labour mayor urges Lib Dem and Green supporters to ‘lend him their votes’ in May’s first-past-the-post election