Mayor of London Boris Johnson has named businessman Tim Parker as his new Chief of Staff and ‘Chief Executive’ of the GLA Group, City Hall announced earlier today. Mr Parker is a successful businessman credited with turning around the fortunes of companies as diverse as the AA, … [Read more...]
Livingstone Sets Out ‘Transport Choice’
April 22, 2008 By
Ken Livingstone has said the future of transport in London is 'the big choice' facing voters next week. Speaking earlier today Mr Livingstone said the choice facing Londoners was between proven experience and "complete incoherence" on the part of Tory candidate Boris Johnson. On … [Read more...]
Negativity at the Reuters Mayoral Hustings
April 15, 2008 By
Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, and Brian Paddick spent this morning at the Reuters Mayoral Hustings at Reuters House, Canary Wharf where they addressed an audience of business leaders and journalists. The event started with each candidate setting out their vision for the Capital, … [Read more...]
Darling, Brown and Byers – May We Have Our Apology?
February 7, 2008 By
Many of the critics who slammed Ken Livingstone's decision to mount a legal challenge against the Tube PPP are now ministers hoping he'll secure their party a much needed victory in May's elections. Many Londoners who supported Ken Livingstone in 2000 after Labour's desperate and … [Read more...]
Livingstone Vindicated as Brown Bails Out Metronet
February 7, 2008 By
The Government yesterday performed a humiliating u-turn when it announced a £1.7bn "grant" to pay creditors of Metronet, the failed PPP operator responsible for maintenance of 9 London Underground lines. The Tube PPP scheme was promoted by then Chancellor Gordon Brown in the face … [Read more...]
TfL Submit Formal Metronet Bid
October 25, 2007 By
Transport for London has formally bid to take over collapsed tube maintenance company Metronet it has been announced. The company collapsed earlier this year after it failed to secure an increase of £551 million in the money paid to it by London Underground. Chris Bolt, the statutory … [Read more...]
Livingstone Attacks Johnson ‘Transport Blunders’
September 17, 2007 By
As the Conservatives enter the second week of hustings to select a candidate for Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has attacked what he called front-runner Boris Johnson's "damaging transport policy blunders". Mr Livingstone also accused Mr Johnson of "systematically refusing to accept … [Read more...]
Tube Strike Goes Ahead
September 3, 2007 By
Tube passengers have been hit disruption this evening after the RMT union proceeded with a planned 72-hours strike. Earlier today two out of the three trade unions involved in Metronet, UNITE - Britain’s largest trade union, and the TSSA, have called off their strike after accepting … [Read more...]
