Over the past few months Conservative mayoral runner Zac Goldsmith has sought to portray Labour rival Sadiq Khan as “Jeremy Corbyn’s candidate” in a bid to damage Mr Khan’s mainstream credentials.
2016 London Elections
All the latest news and opinion from the Mayoral and London Assembly elections in which Zac Goldsmith, Sadiq Khan, Caroline Pidgeon and Sian Berry will fight it out for London's top political job.
Doreen Lawrence urges Londoners to back Sadiq Khan’s vision of “unity” for London
Baroness Lawrence, who last summer backed Tessa Jowell’s bid to be Labour’s candidate, said: “London is a city that not only tolerates, but celebrates our diversity. A city that I know will choose unity over division. And hope over fear.”
Goldsmith: London’s Tube & rail passengers face worsening conditions unless investment is safeguarded
London’s rising population means transport bosses are drawing up plans to service 330 million extra journeys each year but Mr Goldsmith says these plans would be put at risk by Sadiq Khan’s pledge to freeze Transport for London fares for the full four-year mayoral term.
London’s Greens pledge new stop & search watchdog and ban on officers who “misuse” power
In recent years Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has moved the force towards a more ‘intelligence-led’ use of the powers but the disparity in the ethnicity of those stopped continues to be a cause of concern for many campaigners.
Is UKIP set to become City Hall’s third largest party?
The big news from yesterday’s YouGov poll was Sadiq Khan’s 16 point lead over Zac Goldsmith in the mayoral race but there’s another, pretty much unreported, finding contained within the full tables – UKIP looks set to become the third largest party on the London Assembly.
