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What's the best thing Labour's done for Lambeth over the past year?
Labour's changing Lambeth for the better - but which of the improvements means the most for you?
| Boosting the police teams so there's more uniformed officers on the streets |  |
| Planning the biggest-ever investment to improve council homes | |
| Agreeing plans to build more new secondary schools and rebuild the existing ones | |
| Investing record amounts in youth services and getting Lambeth's first Youth Mayor elected | |
| Keeping council tax rises down and delivering the first budget surplus for over two decades | |
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 Streatham Lib Dem abandons his residents |
I was astonished to get a complaint last week from residents in my ward in Brixton about a Lib Dem who was elected to represent Wells Ward in Streatham. Residents living in Sandhurst Court on Ac...
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| Campaign for resident-only parking |
Residents living in roads towards the top of Brixton Hill are fed up with commuter parking. The roads are blocked solid all day long with cars left by people from outside our area who park there...
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| Making Dumbarton Court better |
Steve and his fellow ward councillors are campaigning for improvements to Dumbarton Court. Our Labour cuoncillors strongly supported residents campaigning for new gates at the main ent...
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| A new secondary school for Brixton Hill children |
When Labour was elected to run Lambeth Council in 2006, one of our priorities was to provide more secondary school places. Under the Lib Dems and Tories, up to 500 children a year had been offer...
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| 8 June 2008 |
Lambeth has the biggest Portuguese population of any city outside Portugal, so Portuguese National Day is always a big event here. The annual ‘Dia de Portugal’ festival at Kennington P...
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| 29 April 2008 |
Tuesday was ‘Hope Not Hate’ day – with a special campaign urging people to vote in the London elections to keep the fascist BNP out of City Hall. The BNP are a far-right racist party...
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| 8 April 2008 |
There were a lot of excited young people at the new Michael Tippett School last Thursday. Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Schools, came to officially open the new building. I was...
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| 5 April 2008 |
Central Brixton has been cordoned off because of a major fire opposite the tube station. The station has been closed and people evacuated from the area between Stockwell Road and Acre Lane. T...
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| 28 March 2008 |
I joined Ken Livingstone and Val Shawcross on a walkabout through Brixton Market on Thursday. Ken, of course, is Mayor of London and used to live and go to school in Brixton. Val ...
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| 21 March 2008 |
The result of the Vassall Ward by-election was very disappointing. Labour got 850 votes to 1200 for the Lib Dems. That’s a good win for them, but a great shame for our fantastic candidate Andy ...
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| 19 March 2008 |
There’s a council by-election in Vassall Ward, north Brixton, this Thursday following the tragic death of former Labour Mayor Liz Atkinson. At a time when politicians are criticised for b...
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| 23 February |
I had the pleasure of chairing a Labour Party national policy forum meeting earlier in the month. The event took place at Waterloo and the guest speaker was Communities Secretary Hazel Blea...
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| 3 February 2008 |
Southwark Cathedral was packed with mourners this afternoon for the funeral of Liz Atkinson. Liz was Labour councillor for Vassall Ward in north Brixton and was the immediate past mayor of ...
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| 4 January 2008 |
Streatham’s new customer centre opened this week in Gracefield Gardens behind the Odeon. Like the centre in Brixton residents can access a wide range of council services under one roof – ...
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| Lib Dems oppose new secondary school |
Lib Dems have attacked plans for a brand new secondary school in Lambeth. Labour is proposing to build a new school on Christchurch Road between Streatham and Brixton to help address the shortag...
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| 19 December 2007 |
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith spent today in Brixton. I met her at the Police building in Kennington where we had a chat with the Borough Commander about crime issues in Lambeth. We tal...
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| 15 December 2007 |
Great news for Streatham this week. Labour councillors have signed a deal that will see a major new development on the site of the current run-down leisure centre and ice rink. The ...
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| 12 November 2007 |
Remembrance Sunday is marked by millions across the country who wear a red poppy in memory of the fallen of two world wars and other conflicts. The biggest memorial event in Lambeth ta...
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| 11 November 2007 |
It was a great pleasure to meet children at the Queen Mother Moore Supplementary School on Saturday morning. The school offers extra tuition to children from the black community. The ...
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| Diversity and the creative economy: the creative sector in Lambe |
This is a speech I gave at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the Creative Clusters conference. This international event focuses on the role and development of the creative industries...
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Residents living in roads towards the top of Brixton Hill are fed up with commuter parking. The roads are blocked solid all day long with cars left by people from outside our area who park there...
When Labour was elected to run Lambeth Council in 2006, one of our priorities was to provide more secondary school places. Under the Lib Dems and Tories, up to 500 children a year had been offer...
There were a lot of excited young people at the new Michael Tippett School last Thursday. Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Schools, came to officially open the new building. I was...
Central Brixton has been cordoned off because of a major fire opposite the tube station. The station has been closed and people evacuated from the area between Stockwell Road and Acre Lane. T...
The result of the Vassall Ward by-election was very disappointing. Labour got 850 votes to 1200 for the Lib Dems. That’s a good win for them, but a great shame for our fantastic candidate Andy ...
There’s a council by-election in Vassall Ward, north Brixton, this Thursday following the tragic death of former Labour Mayor Liz Atkinson. At a time when politicians are criticised for b...
I had the pleasure of chairing a Labour Party national policy forum meeting earlier in the month. The event took place at Waterloo and the guest speaker was Communities Secretary Hazel Blea...
Southwark Cathedral was packed with mourners this afternoon for the funeral of Liz Atkinson. Liz was Labour councillor for Vassall Ward in north Brixton and was the immediate past mayor of ...
Streatham’s new customer centre opened this week in Gracefield Gardens behind the Odeon. Like the centre in Brixton residents can access a wide range of council services under one roof – ...
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith spent today in Brixton. I met her at the Police building in Kennington where we had a chat with the Borough Commander about crime issues in Lambeth. We tal...
Remembrance Sunday is marked by millions across the country who wear a red poppy in memory of the fallen of two world wars and other conflicts. The biggest memorial event in Lambeth ta...
It was a great pleasure to meet children at the Queen Mother Moore Supplementary School on Saturday morning. The school offers extra tuition to children from the black community. The ...