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‘Everything I do has climate at its centre’: Hackney’s first Green mayor gets to work

After the initial euphoria of victory, Zoë Garbett prepares to begin running one of England’s most diverse and deprived boroughs

The Guardian - UK

London faces NINE by-elections at cost of £200,000 to taxpayers - why are they happening?

The local elections dust has barely settled over the capital and already Londoners are facing a string of by-elections

Evening Standard

East London Green councillor quits straight after election victory for breaking rules

James Tilden was elected to represent Hackney Central ward with 1,681 votes following the council elections last Thursday, but his party failed to realise this breached electoral law

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London local elections: Which boroughs have mayors and who will win?

Residents in Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Croydon will cast their votes to appoint a mayor for their council

Evening Standard

Green mayoral candidate under fire for ‘blocking’ letter praising police for Golders Green response

Councillor Zoë Garbett, who co-leads the Green Party in Hackney, raised objections to the proposed missive

Evening Standard

‘We’re pushing at an open door’: Why this London borough is the Greens’ top target

LOCAL ELECTIONS: Athena Stavrou joins campaigners in Zack Polanski’s home borough of Hackney, where the Greens are confident they can make a dent in Labour’s domination of the capital

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Met Police to pilot facial recognition identity checks with handheld devices, Sadiq Khan reveals

Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology in six month trial - as critics raise concerns

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Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms

Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’

The Guardian - UK

Disabled Londoners being failed by 'chronic' shortage of accessible housing, Sadiq Khan warned

Lack of homes for people with access needs to live independently has led to ‘deeply distressing’ conditions, according to chair of London Assembly housing committee

Evening Standard

If the Greens really are to become the Reform-style populists of the left, Zack Polanski could be their man

The deputy leader is challenging for the top job at a time when the party urgently needs to pick up disillusioned leftwing voters, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Met Police under fire over ‘discriminatory’ use of facial recognition cameras in London

Data shows the technology has been deployed mostly in boroughs with a higher-than-average Black population

Evening Standard

Residents 'left to rot' next to boarded-up houses as Clockwork Orange estate regeneration stalled

Around a quarter of residents are left living on the Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead

Evening Standard

Outcry over plans to turn part of Dalston's Ridley Road shopping village into 'slum' flats

Proposals put forward by an offshore private developer for seven flats seen as ‘slums of the future’ by locals

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Calls for 'legal regulation' of drugs amid rise in synthetic opiod overdoses

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan urged to call on Government to legally regulate drug-taking

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Leeds Green party councillor says sorry for comments about Gaza conflict

Mothin Ali has not been suspended from city council despite outcry over remarks

Evening Standard

London mayoral election: 15 memorable moments in the race for City Hall

From Susan Hall admitting she was a ‘raver back in the day’ to doughnuts bearing Sadiq Khan’s face, Ross Lydall looks back at the highlights from the 2024 mayoral race

Evening Standard

London mayoral elections: What are the candidates' plans for public transport?

The mayoral candidates plans for London transport at a glance

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What is the London Assembly? Elections to take place in May

The London Assembly holds 25 members but what exactly do they do?

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London Tube and rail journeys should have flat fare, Green mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett says

Zoë Garbett said she would ‘set an ambition to flatten fares and create a single zone for tube and rail’

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Green London mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett pledges lower Tube fares and free school meals expansion

The candidate warned that London has become ‘far too expensive’ for ‘too many people’

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Green London mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett proposes 'smarter, fairer road charging system'

The idea bears a close resemblance to the ‘pay-per-mile’ system which Sadiq Khan has promised will not happen for as long as he is mayor

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Green London mayoral candidate still 'committed' to City Hall campaign despite bid to be Hackney mayor

Zoë Garbett is running in next week's by-election for the Hackney mayoralty, but is also Green candidate for Mayor of London

The Week

Next London mayor: the odds, the polls, the candidates

The race to become the next mayor of London has become significantly closer after Labour’s shock by-election defeat in Uxbridge put incumbent Sadiq Khan’s flagship green policy in doubt.

Evening Standard

‘Our drug laws are killing people’, says Greens London mayoral candidate as she outlines priorities

Green Party candidate Zoë Garbett is the first challenger to Sadiq Khan to have been revealed so far

Evening Standard

Green Party reveals its 2024 London mayoral candidate

Hackney councillor Zoë Garbett is set to take on Sadiq Khan at the next mayoral election

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