The Greater London Authority (GLA),colloquially known by the metonym City Hall,is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London,England. It consists of two political branches:an executive Mayor and the 25-member London Assembly,which serves as a means of checks and balances on the Mayor. Since May 2016,both branches have been under the control of the London Labour Party. The authority was established in 2000,following a local referendum,and derives most of its powers from the Greater London Authority Act 1999 and the Greater London Authority Act 2007.
Lynne Choona Featherstone,Baroness Featherstone,is a British politician,businesswoman and Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.
John Robert Biggs is a British Labour Co-op politician who was Mayor of Tower Hamlets between 2015 and 2022.
Valerie Shawcross is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2016 to 2018. A member of the Labour Co-operative parties,she was Member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark from 2000 to 2016.
An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004,along with the 2004 London mayoral election.
Joanne McCartney is a British barrister and Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician. Since 2004,she has served as a member of the London Assembly,representing Enfield &Haringey. Following the election of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London in 2016,McCartney has served as Statutory Deputy Mayor of London.
A Deputy Mayor is a member of the London Mayoral cabinet,in the executive arm of the Greater London Authority. They serve as political advisors with responsibilities and powers corresponding to portfolios delegated by the Mayor. One of them must be designated as the Statutory Deputy Mayor,a member of the London Assembly who serves as the temporary Mayor during a vacancy or temporary incapacity of the Mayor.
Andrew Robert McIntosh,Baron McIntosh of Haringey,PC was a British Labour politician and last elected Principal of the Working Men's College.
Robert Gavron,Baron Gavron was a British printing millionaire,philanthropist and a Labour life peer.
The 2008 London mayoral election for the office of Mayor of London,England,was held on 1 May 2008. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson defeated incumbent Labour Mayor Ken Livingstone. It was the third London mayoral election,the previous elections being the first election in May 2000 and the second election in June 2004.
Siân Rebecca Berry is a British politician who served as Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales alongside Jonathan Bartley from 2018 to 2021,and as its sole leader from July to October 2021. From 2006 to 2007,she was one of the Green Party's principal speakers.
An election to the Assembly of London took place on 1 May 2008,along with the 2008 London mayoral election. The Conservatives gained 2 seats,Labour gained one seat,the Liberal Democrats lost two seats,and UKIP were wiped out. Notably,a candidate for the British National Party (BNP) was elected for the first time.
The 2012 London mayoral election was an election held on Thursday 3 May 2012,to elect the Mayor of London. It was held on the same day as the London Assembly election,and used a supplementary vote system.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English retired politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986,and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A former member of the Labour Party,he was on the party's hard left,ideologically identifying as a socialist.
Fiona Ruth Twycross,Baroness Twycross is a Labour Party politician. She was born in South London before moving to Oxford. She studied at Cheney School in Oxford before going on to study Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and has a PhD in contemporary Scandinavian literature. She subsequently studied Public Policy and Management at Birkbeck,University of London. She has lived and worked in the East Midlands,Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East.
Tom Phillip Copley is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician,serving as the Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development. He served as a London wide member of the London Assembly from 2012 to 2020 and is a former councillor on Lewisham Council.
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 following a referendum in Greater London. The election used a supplementary vote system.
Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick,formally styled by marriagethe Lady Borwick,is a British politician.
The London Labour Party mayoral selection of 2004 was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of London,to stand in the 2004 mayoral election. Ken Livingstone,the incumbent Mayor of London,was selected to stand after Labour's previous candidate,Nicky Gavron,stood aside.
The London Labour Party mayoral selection of 2002 was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of London,to stand in the 2004 mayoral election. Nicky Gavron,Deputy Mayor of London and London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey,was selected to stand.
