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HISTORICAL FACTS: Paul swaddle - The Untold Story

London council calls claims 'standing ban' is planned in pubs across West End and Soho 'ludicrous'

The council faced a pile-on of backlash following claims it planned on banning standing at pubs

Evening Standard

Westminster Council and outgoing minister warns new PM Burnham: Don't 'diminish' London to boost north

Westminster is facing having to impose huge council tax increases on residents to plug a £100 million blackhole in its finances

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Edgware Road chaos as police clash with fans after France World Cup win

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Andy Burnham warned 'don't level down London' as tens of thousands of jobs to be axed in Whitehall

‘Real devolution means backing councils to grow, not hollowing out London,’ says Westminster City Council leader Cllr Paul Swaddle

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Sadiq Khan in 'democratic stitch-up' storm over Oxford Street pedestrianisation

The London Mayor is pressing ahead with the controversial change to Britain’s flagship shopping street

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Fresh crackdown on e-bikes as central London council signs 'pioneering' deal with Lime

Westminster council strikes ‘pioneering’ agreement with Lime that will see the e-bike rental company share real-time information on the location and number of cycles across the borough

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Short-term letting platforms urged to tackle ‘out of control’ renting across London’s West End

Paul Swaddle is urging Airbnb-style booking platforms to cooperate to protect housing markets in London

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Westminster Tories accused of ‘U-turning’ on promise for Oxford Street after plans for judicial review ditched

The leader of Westminster City Council said a legal challenge against pedestrianisation was ‘simply impossible at this late stage’

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Westminster council leader hits out at ‘Temu’ Oxford Street pedestrianisation plans

If all goes to plan, Oxford Street will become fully pedestrianised by the end of summer 2026

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Westminster Council leader calls for pro-Palestine marches to be suspended

The leader of Westminster City Council has called for the suspension of pro-Palestine marches. He has written a letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to express his concerns over planned protests in Westminster on Saturday.

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Westminster Labour councillor quits party and joins Tories blaming 'Sadiq Khan vanity projects'

Paul Fisher, who was elected a Labour councillor in the West End in 2022, said: ‘Sadiq Khan has failed London’

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Legal action fund to block Sadiq Khan's Oxford Street pedestrianisation voted down

Conservative councillors had hoped a judicial review could ‘force the mayor’s hand’ over what they call an ‘ill thought out vanity project’

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