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London politics

December 2025

  • Lambeth town hall

    London councils have a ‘sustained reliance’ on private firms as report shows £500m spend

    Exclusive: Research prompts warning that authorities rely on companies to carry out basic functions

September 2025

  • A green and white Ulez sign on a busy London road

    TfL says persistent offenders owe more than £700m in Ulez fines

  • Rob Lane

    Other lives
    Rob Lane obituary

April 2025

  • Bunhill 2 energy centre.

    ‘Smart, green thinking’: four innovative London council carbon offset projects

  • Newly planted tree saplings in protective tubes in a field in north London

    London councils yet to spend £130m in local climate funds

March 2025

  • The silhouette of a 17-year-old homeless girl with her baby in a corridor in a London building.

    Labour-run Enfield council left 100 families homeless after they refused to relocate

    London council’s policy of offering people homes far from the area led to England’s highest number of refusals
  • An ultra-low emission zone, sign in London.

    Credit where it’s due for cleaner air in London

    Letters: Sadiq Khan should be congratulated for expanding the Ulez scheme despite criticism from Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, says Peter Walker. Plus a letter from Dr Robin Russell-Jones
  • A Ulez sign amid traffic on Brownhill Road in Lewisham, south London.

    Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion

    People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas

February 2025

  • Sadiq Khan

    Sadiq Khan says ‘Brexit was a mistake’ and closer EU ties could counter Trump tariffs

    London mayor to tell meeting that mobility scheme would benefit young people and economy

January 2025

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    Sadiq Khan, mayor of London

    To welcome in the New Year, Grace is joined by politician Sadiq Khan.
    Podcast44:53

October 2024

  • Amy Lamé in 2016, the year she was appointed Night Czar.

    Amy Lamé has stepped down as London’s night czar – and nightlife could be poorer for it

    Ed Gillett
    She was derided as toothless and overpaid – but often by right-wingers with a broader motive. Rather than cheer her departure, let’s advocate for London’s vibrant culture

September 2024

  • Shoppers in Oxford Street, London

    Traffic to be banned from London’s Oxford Street under Sadiq Khan plan

    Mayor to be given power to overrule Westminster council, which blocked previous plan amid concerns over rerouting buses

June 2024

  • Jeremy Corbyn meets striking junior doctors outside St Thomas's hospital: he is wearing a loose short-sleeved cotton shirt and baseball cap and is seen talking to two young, female doctors who wear orange hats with the logo of the British Medical Association and carry placards reading 'pay restoration for doctors' and '£15 an hour is not a fair wage for a junior doctor'.

    Jeremy Corbyn in final push to keep seat amid voter confusion in Islington North

    Hundreds are knocking on doors for longtime MP, often having to remind voters that he is no longer Labour
  • Leanne Mohamad

    ‘People feel very betrayed’: the British Palestinian out to unseat Labour’s Wes Streeting in Ilford

    Leanne Mohamad gave up her Labour membership last year and believes she is in a two-horse race in east London seat
  • In the run-up to July's election, the Guardian video team will be touring the UK looking at the issues that matter to voters. In a week when an attack on a refugee camp in Rafah and the Labour party's treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen dominated the headlines, we spoke to voters in Ilford – North and South – who were protesting locally about Gaza. We asked whether these issues would make a difference to how they vote in the election, met canvassers getting behind independent candidates, and spoke to business owners about their political priorities

    Will Gaza cost Labour votes in east London? The view from Ilford – video

    In the run-up to July's election, the Guardian video team will be touring the UK looking at the issues that matter to voters. In a week when an attack on a refugee camp in Rafah and the Labour party's treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen dominated the headlines, we spoke to voters in Ilford – North and South – who were protesting locally about Gaza. We asked whether these issues would make a difference to how they vote in the election, met canvassers getting behind independent candidates, and spoke to business owners about their political priorities
    Video4:55

May 2024

  • Diane Abbott looks at camera in red outfit with people around

    Three Labour names in frame with Diane Abbott’s candidacy in doubt

  • An old car being lowered into a car crusher by a crane, seen from below

    Ulez scrappage scheme snarl-ups leave motorists facing crunch

April 2024

  • Ads for 888.com online casino on (clockwise from left) a tube train, saying 'this carriage is now a casino'; on a taxi, saying 'fancy a spin?'; and at a bus stop, saying 'your bus is now a casion'

    Online casino firm 888.com to withdraw UK adverts after backlash

    Ads to be removed from London transport network amid criticism of mayor Sadiq Khan’s ‘baffling’ decision to allow them
  • Tents in the foreground with the Thames and the Houses of Parliament in the background.

    Sadiq Khan pledges to eliminate rough sleeping in London ‘once and for all’

    Khan says he will spend extra £10m on crisis if elected to third term as mayor as numbers reach highest level in a decade
  • Nick Cave. Photograph: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

    Weekend
    Nick Cave on how grief shapes his art, Marina Hyde on the Thames Water crisis, and bread’s role in British society – podcast

    This week, Marina Hyde discusses the Thames Water crisis after a sewage-plagued boat race; Simon Hattenstone interviews Nick Cave, who is about to exhibit his ceramic figurines at the Xavier Hufkens gallery, about art, love, politics and the death of his two sons; and Rachel Dixon investigates bread in Britain and what it tells us about health, wealth and class.
    Podcast47:25
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