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.
Latest YouGov poll gives Khan 16% lead over Goldsmith
According to the poll, the Labour candidate is poised to take 48% of first preference votes with Goldsmith winning 32%. After second preference votes are taken into consideration Khan would finish the race with 60% of votes with Goldsmith trailing behind on just 40%.
London’s Greens have grown over the past 16 years, it’s no longer appropriate to endorse rival mayoral hopefuls
What we are seeing now is London Green Party doing exactly the same as virtually every other political party in virtually every mayoral contest – promoting our own candidate and our own party and leaving voters to make up their own mind on second preferences.
