The mayor of London is the chief executive of the Greater London Authority. The role was created in 2000 after the Greater London devolution referendum in 1998,and was the first directly elected mayor in the United Kingdom.
Stockwell is a district in South West London,England,located in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of Charing Cross. Battersea,Brixton,Clapham,South Lambeth,Oval and Kennington all border Stockwell.
Lambeth is a London borough in South London,England,which forms part of Inner London. Its name was recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha and in 1255 as Lambeth. The geographical centre of London is at Frazier Street near Lambeth North tube station,though nearby Charing Cross on the other side of the Thames in the City of Westminster is traditionally considered the centre of London.
Valerie Shawcross is a Labour Co-operative politician who served as deputy mayor of London for Transport from 2016 to 2018 and as a Member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark from 2000 to 2016. She was a councillor on Croydon London Borough Council from 1994 to 2000 and led the council from 1997 to 2000. Following a vote held in December 2021 she was selected as Croydon Labour's prospective candidate for the newly created position of Mayor of Croydon.
Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham,south London,England. Originally common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham,it was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878. It is 220 acres of green space,with three ponds and a Victorian bandstand. It is overlooked by large Georgian and Victorian mansions and nearby Clapham Old Town.
Streatham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Bell Ribeiro-Addy of the Labour Party.
Vauxhall is a constituency represented in the House of Commons by Florence Eshalomi of Labour Co-op since her election in 2019.
Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016. He previously was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 until 2016. A member of the Labour Party,Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.
The Silvertown Tunnel is a road tunnel under construction beneath the River Thames between the Greenwich Peninsula and west Silvertown.
Lambeth London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Lambeth in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,and one of the 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. The council meets at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton. Lambeth is divided into 21 wards,each electing three councillors. The council was first elected in 1964.
The Scottish Violence Reduction Unit is a Police Scotland initiative established in January 2005 which uses a public health approach to target all forms of violent behaviour including street/gang violence,domestic abuse,school bullying and workplace bullying.
Figures on crime in London are based primarily on two sets of statistics:the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime data. Greater London is generally served by three police forces;the Metropolitan Police which is responsible for policing the vast majority of the capital,the City of London Police which is responsible for The Square Mile of the City of London,and the British Transport Police which polices the national rail network and the London Underground. A fourth police force in London,the Ministry of Defence Police,do not generally become involved with policing the general public. London also has a number of small constabularies for policing parks. Within the Home Office crime statistic publications Greater London is referred to as the London Region.
The 2016 London mayoral election was held on 5 May 2016 to elect the Mayor of London,on the same day as the London Assembly election. It was the fifth election to the position of mayor,which was created in 2000 after a referendum in Greater London. The election used a supplementary vote system.
The 2021 London mayoral election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of London. It was held simultaneously with elections for the London Assembly,other local elections across England and Wales,and devolved elections in Scotland and Wales. The mayoral and Assembly elections were to be held on 7 May 2020,but in March 2020 the government announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Florence Dauta Eshalomi is a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Vauxhall since 2019. She previously served as the Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Lambeth and Southwark from 2016 to 2021,and represented Brixton Hill on the Lambeth London Borough Council from 2006 to 2018.
The 2018 Lambeth London Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 alongside other local elections in London,to elect members of Lambeth London Borough Council in England. The election saw Labour remain in control of Lambeth Council with a slightly reduced majority,winning over 90% of the seats. The Green Party achieved its best-ever result in the borough,winning five seats and becoming the official opposition and the largest Green group in London.
Susan Mary Hall is a Conservative Party politician who has been a member of the London Assembly since 2017. She has been the leader of the London Conservatives on the Assembly since December 2019.
Harris Bokhari OBE is the founder and a trustee at the Patchwork Foundation,for which he won the Diversity Champion of the Year Award in early 2018. The Patchwork Foundation is a charity that aims to "promote and encourage the positive integration of disadvantaged and minority communities into British democracy and civil society."
Luisa Manon Porritt is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London from 2019 to 2020. She was the party's candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election,where she failed to achieve more than 5% of the vote and thus lost her deposit.
The 2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election is due to take place on 5 May 2022. All 63 members of Lambeth London Borough Council will be elected. The elections will take place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
