Florence Eshalomi AM Articles

I was thinking about what I could contribute to the debate this morning in the context of ‘What can local government teach the Labour party?’ and I thought I would take us back to 2006. Ten years ago, at the youthful age of 25, in May 2006, I was a bleary-eyed, newly...

On the evening of 27 September 2012, I spent the evening with a group of young people from Lambeth Youth Council discussing how best to target resources from the Lambeth Youth Mayor’s fund to help steer young people into positive activities. The group included the...

Like lots of Progress members, I am standing for election this week. I am proud of the work my and other London Labour councils have done in the most difficult of times. The government has frontloaded the cuts of local authorities in the hope that hard-working Labour...

PMQs today was exactly a year to go until the 2015 general election and, following the speaker John Bercow cutting short the prime minister at last week’s session and trying to deal with the noisy members of parliament, it was interesting to see what the mood in the...