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London - City Hall politics

  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Sadiq Khan says residents must not ‘dictate’ Oxford Street decision

    London mayor willing to take the ‘flak’ from locals who want to block pedestrianisation

    CGI artist’s impression of pedestrianised Oxford Street in London, England
  • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
    London mayor warns of fare rises as TfL signs government support deal

    Government to inject £1.2bn into capital’s transport network but Sadiq Khan says ‘significant funding gap’ remains

    Passengers board and disembark a Tube train
  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    UK politics
    Boris Johnson risks London electoral backlash over levelling up, mayor warns

    Sadiq Khan says opposition Labour party is benefiting from Tory funding squeeze on capital’s public transport

    Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Howard Smith chief operating officer of Elizabeth line, Boris Johnson and Grant Shapps on a new train to mark the completion of London’s Crossrail project
  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    Climate change
    London mayor looks to cut car journeys in push for net zero

    Sadiq Khan prepares radical options on expanding ultra-low emission zone and charging drivers in capital

    Vehicles pass a Ulez sign
  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    Sadiq Khan
    Transport for London’s funding crisis puts UK recovery at risk

    Clipping London’s wings will not help other cities and regions to soar

    Canary Wharf tube station during rush hour
  • Sunday, 1 November, 2020
    Transport
    Sadiq Khan and Boris Johnson strike London transport rescue deal

    £1.8bn will keep Tube and buses running for six months as new lockdown hits TfL’s finances

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    Transport for London
    London faces cuts to transport services amid funding battle

    Mayor Sadiq Khan says government must provide £4.9bn rescue package to keep TfL running

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    UK government spending
    Government threatens to take direct control of Transport for London

    Mayor Sadiq Khan told he must accept ministerial demands, including higher fares, if he wants bailout

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Transport for London
    Sadiq Khan resists congestion zone extension to secure TfL rescue

    Government ties conditions to funding extension for London’s transport network

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    Transport for London
    TfL launches review into funding of transport in UK capital

    London mayor names expert panel despite study being carried out by government after £1.6bn rescue

  • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
    Transport for London
    London transport set for £1.6bn bailout after ‘running out’ of money

    Mayor Sadiq Khan had warned of cuts to Tube and bus services without extra funding

  • Sunday, 29 September, 2019
    Boris Johnson
    Boris Johnson rejects new claims over behaviour

    Rare move comes as City Hall denies political bias in Arcuri allegations

    DO NOT REUSE  Without Permission from the PICTURE DESK £180 Per Use Jennifer Arcuri meets Boris Johnson Innotechsummit.com Google Hangout at Excel part of the 9th WORLD ISLAMIC ECONOMIC FORUM LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 30th OCTOBER 2013 Photograph © vicki couchman 07957226911 vicki@vickicouchman.com
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2019
    Boris Johnson
    Boris Johnson given two weeks to explain links to entrepreneur

    London assembly investigating potential conflict of interest when PM was mayor of capital

    Jennifer Arcuri meets Boris Johnson The Innotechsummit.com Google Hangout at Excel part of the 9th WORLD ISLAMIC ECONOMIC FORUM LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 30th OCTOBER 2013 Photograph © vicki couchman 07957226911 vicki@vickicouchman.com
  • Monday, 23 September, 2019
    Boris Johnson
    Boris Johnson says he acted with ‘complete propriety’ as London mayor

    PM responds to allegations over friendship with a US entrepreneur

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks to the media on board his plane as he flies to New York where he will attend the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly. PA Photo. Picture date: Sunday September 22, 2019. See PA story POLITICS UN. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2019
    London
    Sadiq Khan’s congestion charge for minicabs ‘not discriminatory’

    Court dismisses legal challenge brought by trade union against London mayor

    CP83X3 Toyota Prius minicab, London, UK
  • Wednesday, 8 August, 2018
    UK economy
    London transport body counts cost of junk food advertising ban

    Plan would cut revenue by £13m a year as TfL faces widening operating deficit

    MMMABA People walk past advertising hoardings promoting McDonalds BBQ Chicken burger in the Oxford Circus underground station in central London. Junk food a
  • Thursday, 5 July, 2018
    Retail sector
    Quarrel over Oxford Street car ban shifts up a gear

    London mayor restricts Westminster council funding after it drops pedestrianisation

    How a pedestrianised Oxford Street would have looked
  • Thursday, 21 June, 2018
    Heathrow expansion
    London mayor backs legal action against Heathrow expansion

    Sadiq Khan to support for challenge to third runway brought by four London councils

    Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Sunday, March 11, 2018. Khan is warning Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube they will face a potential clampdown from governments around the world if they fail to "go further and faster" in stopping online abuse. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 29 May, 2018
    UK infrastructure
    Boris Johnson’s ‘ill-judged’ London cycle lane rush attacked

    Transport for London’s head says Cycle Superhighways were introduced too hastily

    Mayor of London Boris Johnson arrives by bike to view progress on East-West Cycle Superhighway on Victoria Embankment, London.
  • Tuesday, 8 May, 2018
    UK politics
    Labour’s Heidi Alexander to quit Commons for Sadiq’s City Hall

    Latest moderate to leave parliament since Jeremy Corbyn became party leader

    Undated handout photo issued by the Mayor of London's office of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (right) and Labour MP Heidi Alexander. Ms Alexander is standing down from Parliament after being confirmed as London's deputy mayor for transport, replacing current deputy mayor Val Shawcross. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 8, 2018. See PA story POLITICS Alexander. Photo credit should read: Caroline Teo/GLA/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
  • Thursday, 1 March, 2018
    UK politics
    Boris Johnson unable to answer questions on Garden Bridge

    Former London Mayor says he did not waste ‘a single penny’ of £46m of public money

    Image ©Licensed to i-Images Picture Agency. 01/03/2018. London, United Kingdom. Boris Johnson hearing. Boris Johnson summonsed to GLA committee hearing Boris Johnson giving evidence in his capacity as former Mayor of London on the Garden Bridge project at London Authority, ÊCity Hall. Picture by Gustavo Valiente / i-Images
  • Monday, 26 February, 2018
    UK economy
    Private hire cars face paying London congestion charge

    TfL considers extending £11.50-a-day levy to likes of Uber and Addison Lee

    DYY0X9 Congestion charge signs Red car crossing into Central London traffic congestion zone Gower Street London England UK. Image shot 2014. Exact date unknown.
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2018
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s ‘night tsar’ champions the city after dark

    Amy Lamé aims to shine the spotlight on public transport and housing issues

    DATE: 20 JANUARY 2018 CAPTION: Amy LamŽ, London's first Night Czar, laughs during a portrait shoot at Maison Bertaux, a french patisserie in Soho and one of her favorite places in London.
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2018
    UK infrastructure
    Transport for London heads for £1bn operational deficit

    Tube upgrades shelved as passenger numbers fall

    An employee cleans the headlight of a London Underground Northern Line train at Alstom SA's traincare centre in the Golders Green district of London, U.K., on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Transport for London (TFL), who oversee the U.K. capital's public transport system, issued 300 million pounds ($476 million) of bonds five months ahead of schedule to take advantage of investor demand as it continues its 35 billion-pound transport investment program. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 2 February, 2018
    Property sector
    London mayor blocks public funds for unpopular regeneration projects

    Schemes must get support of current residents to access mayoral funding

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