Robin Wales Articles

When I became mayor fifteen years ago, we said we would transform Newham into a place where residents wanted to live, work and stay. We wanted jobs for our residents, good education for our children, and a diverse community that had good cohesion. We knew in part we...

Labour in local government is delivering real change to working people’s lives up and down the country. But before talking about what lessons can be learned from local government, a warning: there have been times when local government has got it wrong. We must admit...

For many years Newham has campaigned for investment in transport infrastructure, believing, as we do, that with the right links, and developable land, we can attract business and hence jobs for residents. One of the obvious results of this campaigning can be seen in...

It is simply unacceptable that in modern Britain people living in disadvantaged areas continue to suffer poorer outcomes than those of their more affluent peers. In Newham and the surrounding east London boroughs which hosted the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games,...