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London's £3bn 'Dubai-on-Thames' slammed as 'disgusting flaunting of excessive wealth'

The Nine Elms regeneration project in Wandsworth, London, opened a year ago and in that time has gained much criticism for its "excessive wealth" with several homes nearby where families struggle to make ends meet

Daily Mirror

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: 1,000 street parties and events… and lunch with Charles and Camilla

Richmond, Wandsworth and Croydon are leading the way, with hundreds of jubilee events in each borough

Evening Standard

Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill: new homes behind target across London but some boroughs worse than others

Barnet, Southwark, Wandsworth and Ealing were responsible for 30 per cent of all new homes starts in the year to March 2022

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Buying a London property: the number of homes for sale now in every London borough

Struggling to find a home to buy? New data shows Wandsworth and Barnet have the most properties for sale right now, while Barking & Dagenham has the fewest.

Evening Standard

Boris Becker ‘complains about prison food’ as tennis star shocked by lack of hygiene

Tennis star Boris Becker has reportedly found it tough going in the early stages of his prison sentence after complaining about the food and lack of hygiene at HMP Wandsworth

Daily Mirror

‘People are just desperate’: how London turned on the Tories

Voters in the flagship Conservative boroughs of Westminster and Wandsworth reveal why they booted out the blues

The Guardian - UK

Local elections: Five biggest moments as Tories lose historic councils and hundreds of seats

Labour makes significant gains in London, with Keir Starmer calling the results a ‘turning point’

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Fresh calls for PM to quit as Tories lose hundreds of seats in local elections

Boris Johnson saw his party surrender control of Westminster, Barnet and Wandsworth councils in London. Tories also lost West Oxfordshire. Keir Starmer said the vote was a 'turning point' for Labour

Daily Mirror

‘They deserved a kicking’: Londoners in Conservative strongholds turn their backs on the Tories

The Tories have been dealt defeats in a string of their flagship local authorities in the capital. Rory Sullivan speaks to disilluioned voters

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer may celebrate local election wins but he still needs a vision

Labour may justifiably congratulate itself on symbolic wins in these local elections: the true-blue London strongholds of Westminster and Wandsworth, and the home of so-called “Workington Man” (deemed the archetypal new working-class Tory voter) in Cumberland. Yet it must channel energy from these morale boosts into a pitch that will…

Evening Standard

How Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost their grip on London

Labour turfed out the Tories in former strongholds, while the Tories failed to make hoped-for inroads

The Guardian - UK

Labour triumphs in London but Starmer faces ‘beergate’ investigation

I don’t know how long any news cycle lasts these days, but Keir Starmer may have hoped to bask in the reflective glory of winning Barnet, Westminster and Wandsworth councils for more than a few hours.

Evening Standard

Boris Becker's girlfriend pays first visit to disgraced former world No.1 in prison

Boris Becker was handed a two-and-a-half year prison sentence last week, and is currently incarcerated at HMP Wandsworth, where he was visited by his partner

Daily Mirror

Evening Standard Comment: A disastrous night for the Tories shows you can’t take London for granted

There is no spin or expectation management that can hide the fact this was a disastrous night for the Tories in London. The party lost control not only of Barnet but also its flagship councils of Westminster and Wandsworth, which it had held for decades. Many of their candidates branded…

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Chronicle Live

Local election results in full: Every winner from England, Scotland and Wales polls

The biggest result of the night saw the Conservative Party lose Wandsworth and Westminster to Labour

Evening Standard

Local elections results show it’s time for the Tories to have a separate London party

Overnight election results in London were very good for Labour, though rather less so in other parts of the country. Winning Wandsworth for the first time since 1978 was the beginning of the party’s success in the capital. Despite the Conservatives’ low council tax policy, eight seats switched to Labour.

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson faces furious backlash as Tories lose Thatcher's 'favourite' council

BORIS Johnson is feeling the wrath of rank and file Conservatives after the party lost major London authorities and suffered setbacks across England.

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson looks to be in trouble with these local election results

Analysis: When senior Tories warned they could lose Wandsworth and Westminster it sounded like expectations management. But lose them they did

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Manchester Evening News

Local elections 2022: What's happened in UK so far as Tories suffer heavy losses in London

The Labour Party has swiped the London boroughs of Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet from the Tories

Evening Standard

London elections 2022: Wandsworth Council goes to Labour for first time in 44 years

Labour celebrates in Wandsworth

The Independent UK

Labour wins three flagship Conservative London boroughs

Wandsworth and Barnet borough councils, and Westminster City Council, all previously controlled by the Conservatives, are now in Labour hands.

The Independent UK

Labour marks historic victory in Westminster - a council held by the Tories since creation in 1964

Result came after another win in the Tory ‘crown jewel’ of Wandsworth

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson faces backlash from councillors after Tories lose key London boroughs

The loss of the totemic London authority is a blow to Boris Johnson

Wales Online

Tories lose Wandsworth as Boris Johnson is lambasted by his own party's councillors

Labour gain local election ground in London but it's a mixed picture for Sir Keir Starmer elsewhere

The Independent UK

Tories suffer heavy losses in London as Johnson faces grassroots backlash

Boris Johnson’s party suffered losses to Labour in Wandsworth and Barnet, with defeat also expected in the local election in Westminster.

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