At Labour’s Westminster City Council budget last week, I made Westminster Labour answer for their reckless spending and weak action on rising crime and declining street standards. Westminster Labour has wasted £27 million on a failed housing contractor, self-awarded senior Labour councillors pay rises of up to 62 per cent and are projected to hike your Council Tax by 75 per cent over the next four years.
Following reports of petrol-like contamination in the Morgan House water supply last April, serious concerns remain about the handling of the investigation.We've written to Labour’s leadership demanding an urgent public meeting with residents, Housing Services, Environmental Health, and Thames Water
Last night, Westminster Conservative Group Leader, Cllr Paul Swaddle, and the Conservative team condemned Labour's financial recklessness and set their record of failure straight, offering local people a Conservative alternative with a plan to deliver safe streets, a clean city and real value for mo
Let’s look back at Labour’s time in office and set the record straight:
£27 million wasted after the Geoffrey Osborne housing contractor failure
57 per cent self awarded pay rises for senior Labour councillors
Up to 75 per cent council tax hikes projected over the next four years
Backing the Labour Government’s Family Home Tax, targeting ordinary households
Surrendering Oxford Street to London Mayor Sadiq Khan
This article originally appeared in The Standard on 23 March.
The part-pedestrianisation of Oxford Street has been formally approved by Sir Sadiq Khan – with traffic due to be banned from this summer.
The London mayor authorised the changes on Thursday morning, paving the way for Transport for London to make the nation’s most famous high street traffic-free between Selfridges and Ikea.
Sir Sadiq decided not to make any changes to the draft plans that went out to public consultation last November, despite hundreds of respondents opposing the changes, which will increase congestion on side roads and require 15 bus routes to be curtailed or diverted.
London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has given Oxford Street the green light for pedestrianisation.Let’s be clear: the Mayor is putting his legacy project ahead of the real concerns local people and businesses have raised about accessibility, bus routes, and traffic being displaced into surrounding street
