Lewisham is a London borough in south-east London,England. It forms part of Inner London. The principal settlement of the borough is Lewisham. The local authority is Lewisham London Borough Council,based in Catford. The Prime Meridian passes through Lewisham. Blackheath,Goldsmiths,University of London and Millwall F.C. are located within the borough.
Andrew Hartley Dismore is a British Labour politician who was the Member of the London Assembly for Barnet and Camden from 2012 to 2021. He previously was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hendon from 1997 until 2010.
Jennette Arnold,OBE is a Labour Co-op politician who served as chair of the London Assembly for five terms. From 2004 to 2021,Arnold represented the North East constituency,comprising the London Boroughs of Hackney,Islington and Waltham Forest.
Jonathan Toby Harris,Baron Harris of Haringey is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords.
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.
London Councils is the collective of local government in Greater London,England. It is a cross-party organisation that represents London's 32 borough councils and the City of London. It was formed in 1995 as a merger of the London Boroughs Association and the Association of London Authorities. In April 2000 it gained further functions as strategic local government in London was reorganised. London Councils is a think tank and lobbying organisation,and also provides some services directly through legislation that allows multiple local authorities to pool responsibility and funding,such as Freedom Pass. London Councils is based at 59½Southwark Street. It is due to move to 12 Arthur Street in the City of London in 2024.
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) (2000–2012) was the local police authority responsible for scrutinising and supporting the work of the Metropolitan Police Service,the police force for Greater London.
Greenwich and Lewisham is a constituency represented in the London Assembly.
Sir Steve Bullock is a British politician who served as the first directly elected mayor of the London Borough of Lewisham from 2002 to 2018.
Gareth Andrew Bacon is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington since 2019. He has been Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sentencing since November 2023.
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East from 2010 to 2018.
Onkar Sahota is a British Labour Party politician and general practitioner who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2022 to 2023. He was Deputy Chair of the London Assembly from 2023 to 2024,and the first Labour member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon,from 2012 until 2024.
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 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 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 would only serve 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.
Zack Polanski is the deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales,having served in the role since 7 September 2022. He has been a Londonwide member of the London Assembly (AM) for the party since May 2021. Polanski was also the national spokesperson for the Green Party for Democracy &Citizen Engagement.
Sakina Zahra Sheikh is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide from 2021 to 2024. She also represents Perry Vale on Lewisham Council.
The 2022 Greenwich London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 55 members of Greenwich London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
