Wandsworth Articles

Labour has a proud tradition in Battersea. One hundred years ago Labour Battersea gave Britain its first black mayor, John Archer, and its first working-class cabinet member, John Burns. And in the year women got the vote, Battersea Labour party selected Charlotte...

Wandsworth is in a housing crisis – and the council’s just made it worse. Private rents in this leafy south London borough are up 14 per cent in a year. The average income of a homebuyer is now more than £100,000. Most young people know they have no chance of a...

The lesson we need to learn from the Bradford West by-election, as our deputy leader told us this morning, is to learn the lessons. The problem is: what lessons? A spectacular coup, such as that carried out last night by the newly elected member of parliament for...

When I was selected as a London-wide list candidate for the London assembly, it brought with it a great sense of responsibility. Not only are the London mayoral and assembly elections the next and most major election between now and the next general election, but they...