This article originally appeared in The Standard on 8 January.
A key member of Sir Sadiq Khan’s new Oxford Street quango dropped a bombshell within minutes of the start of its first meeting by declaring: “I wish we weren’t here.”
Adam Hug, the Labour leader of Westminster council, made clear to fellow board members of the Oxford Street development corporation that Sir Sadiq’s decision to seize control of Oxford Street had derailed the council’s own plans to regenerate the nation’s most famous high street.
“We would rather this body didn’t exist and we weren’t here,” Mr Hug said, only minutes after Sir Sadiq said his description of the new board was: “Avengers Assemble!”
Even Labour government ministers recognise the problems with e-bikes, however Labour controlled Westminster Council still continues to ignore the problem.This article originally appeared in the Standard on 7 January.
At the start of the New Year, we caught up with the Conservative Leader of Westminster City Council, Cllr Paul Swaddle, who is calling on Labour-led Westminster Council to tackle illegal short-term lettings.Paul explained, As the New Year arrives, the people of Westminster are once again paying
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Watch West End Councillor Paul Fisher's two-minute explainer on the Geoffrey Osborne scandal, which saw Labour-led Westminster Council waste £27 million.Find out more.
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This article originally appeared on LBC on 18 December.
We end up with officials who are in office, but not in power. That, in a nutshell, is where we find ourselves in Westminster in 2025.
During the Brexit referendum, we often heard about the need to ‘take back control’. The idea that unelected bureaucrats could decide the fate of our country was anathema to many and, well, we know what happened next.
Tents that blocked safe access under the Westway for nearly two years have finally been removed, after sustained pressure from Little Venice Councillors Melvyn Caplan and Lorraine Dean.For almost two years, dozens of tents under the Westway stopped local people from getting across the road safely an
