The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body,part of the Greater London Authority,that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power,with a two-thirds supermajority,to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies. The London Assembly was established in 2000. It is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners,publish its findings and recommendations,and make proposals to the Mayor.
Leonard Lloyd Duvall OBE is a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as the Leader of the Labour Group in the London Assembly since 2004,and has been the Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Greenwich and Lewisham since 2000. Duvall is a former chair of both the Metropolitan Police Authority and the London Labour Party Regional Board.
An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004,along with the 2004 London mayoral election.
Darren Paul Johnson is a former English politician who was a prominent member of the Green Party of England and Wales. He represented the Green Party on the London Assembly from 2000 to 2016 and was a Green councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham. He is now a writer and has had several rock music biographies published.
The Right to Buy scheme is a policy in the United Kingdom,with the exception of Scotland since 1 August 2016 and Wales from 26 January 2019,which gives secure tenants of councils and some housing associations the legal right to buy,at a large discount,the council house they are living in. There is also a Right to Acquire for assured tenants of housing association dwellings built with public subsidy after 1997,at a smaller discount. By 1997,over 1,700,000 dwellings in the UK had been sold under the scheme since its introduction in 1980,with the scheme being cited as one of the major factors in the drastic reduction in the amount of social housing in the UK,which has fallen from nearly 6.5 million units in 1979 to roughly 2 million units in 2017,while also being credited as the main driver of the 15% rise in home ownership,which rose from 55% of householders in 1979 to a peak of 71% in 2003;this figure has declined in England since the late 2000s to 63% in 2017.
Cllr Nicholas Jerome Bennett JP is a British politician and a former Mayor of the London Borough of Bromley. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as a member of parliament (MP) from 1987 to 1992 representing the constituency of Pembrokeshire,and was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Welsh Office from 1990 to 1992. In that role he had responsibility for the Welsh Health Service,Social Services,Housing and Local Government,Water and Sport.
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.
Caroline Valerie Pidgeon is a British politician serving as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly since 2018,and a Londonwide Member of the London Assembly (AM) since 2008.
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.
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.
The 2016 London Assembly election was an election held on 5 May 2016 to elect the members of the London Assembly. It took place on the same day as the London mayoral election and the United Kingdom local elections. Four parties had AMs in the previous Assembly:London Labour led by Len Duvall,London Conservatives led by Gareth Bacon,London Greens led by Siân Berry,and the London Liberal Democrats led by Caroline Pidgeon.
David Michael Kurten is a British politician who has served as leader of the Heritage Party since September 2020. He was previously a member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide from 2016 to 2021. Elected as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate,he subsequently left the party in January 2020. He is the registered leader of the Heritage Party and characterises himself as a social conservative.
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.
The 2021 London Assembly election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the members of the London Assembly,alongside the 2021 London mayoral election. The mayoral and Assembly elections were originally to be held on 7 May 2020,but on 13 March 2020 it was announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the sixth election since the assembly was established in 2000. Due to the previous term being extended to 5 years,those elected will serve only a three-year term until the next election in 2024. The election was held on the same day in 2021 as other elections in the UK;the UK local elections,Scottish Parliament election,and Welsh Senedd election.
Damien James Egan is a British politician who served as Mayor of Lewisham from 2018 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he is their Parliamentary candidate for the 2024 Kingswood by-election.
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Lewisham East on 14 June 2018,following the resignation of Labour MP Heidi Alexander. It was the second by-election held during the 57th UK Parliament,which was elected in June 2017.
Alison Moore is a British Labour politician and was Mayor of Barnet Council from May 2022 to May 2023. Moore served as a member of the London Assembly from March 2020 to May 2021.
Sakina Zahra Sheikh is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide since 2021. She also represents Perry Vale on Lewisham Council.
The 2022 Lewisham London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 54 members of Lewisham London Borough Council were up for election. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
The 2024 London mayoral election is due to be held on 2 May 2024 to elect the next mayor of London. It will take place simultaneously with elections to the London Assembly and local elections across England and Wales. Following the Elections Act 2022,voting in this election will take place under the first-past-the-post system for the first time,replacing the supplementary vote system.
