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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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Steve's blog |
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 Disbelief as Lib Dems blame global fuel price rises on... Lambeth
Council! |
In a move that’s breathtaking even for them, Lib Dem councillors in Lambeth are blaming the global surge in energy prices on Lambeth Council. Growing demand for energy in developing economies ...
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| Can councils help homeowners beat the credit crunch? |
The lack of availability of new mortgages is starting to have an impact. People who want to buy their first property find they can’t. People who need to move find it more difficult. ...
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| Going for gold: Labour invests in community sports |
Isn’t it great to see Britain’s athletes bringing home the Olympic gold from Beijing? So far, three gold medals in three days, and hope for more before the games close. Compare that to...
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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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| More for the young, the old, and the environment |
We had a long meeting of Cabinet last night – the last before the summer break. The agenda was packed, the most important issues before us being the council’s innovative strategy against vio...
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| Starting work on next year's budget |
The famous 20th century economist, J.K. Galbraith, said politics is the “art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” That’s unnecessarily pessimistic, of course, but it’...
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| Crime: put communities in control |
I’ve been chairing a policy working group on crime and justice for the left-wing think tank Progress. The first draft of our report has now been published and we’re looking for comments and ...
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| Get the drug dealers off our streets |
Labour’s cracking down on drug dealing across Lambeth with today’s launch of our Drug Deterrence Policy. If you’ve ever been to Brixton in the evening, the chances are you’ll have notice...
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| Fresh start for council housing in Lambeth |
With confusion reigning up at City Hall, I’ve rather neglected the big changes happening here at Lambeth Council in my most recent posts. It’s time for a catch up. Last week, Lam...
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| Deputy Mayor's departure must not lessen the focus on tackling
knife crime |
I was due to have a meeting with Ray Lewis last week, but an hour before the meeting he cancelled and failed to show up. London’s Tory mayor, Boris Johnson, appointed Lewis as his deputy respo...
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| A better deal for London's older people |
It’s time older people had a stronger voice, and that’s what the London Older People’s Assembly aims to give them. The group held their sixth Annual Convention at City Hall today...
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| In Bournemouth with Cameron, Clegg and Boris |
I’ve spent the week down in Bournemouth at the Local Government Conference. That’s where council leaders and chief executives come together to discuss how councils can help their communities...
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| Funding summer projects - and why I had a go at Boris! |
I’ve just finished a meeting with Tessa Jowell MP up at Westminster. As well as being Minister for London and the Olympics, parts of Tessa’s Dulwich and West Norwood constituency forms the e...
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| Too early to brand Boris a racist? |
I was invited to speak on the Politics Show on BBC1 this morning. They were doing a broadcast from two different parts of London to discuss whether Boris Johnson will be Mayor of all of London or just...
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| Labour's new plan to tackle poverty |
The Community Strategy doesn’t sound very interesting, but what it aims to achieve really is. Every council must, by law, agree a community strategy. It looks forward to 2020, says what the local ar...
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| Lib Dem no-show at climate change fair |
Lambeth’s leading London in tackling climate change. We have the toughest carbon reduction target of any London council, were among the first to introduce emission-based parking charges, and a...
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| Minister opens Brixton Customer Centre |
I welcomed Local Government Minister John Healey MP to the Brixton Customer Centre this morning. The new centre, based in Olive Morris House on Brixton Hill, offers a high quality service that o...
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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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| 2 June 2008 |
Today was extraordinary, starting off with me taking part in a documentary about violent youth crime and ending tragically with the murder of another young person in Lambeth. We still don’t ha...
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| 20 May 2008 |
London Councils is the organisation that brings together all 33 borough councils in London. On Tuesday, I represented Lambeth at the Leaders Committee, sitting round a large oval table with the ...
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Isn’t it great to see Britain’s athletes bringing home the Olympic gold from Beijing? So far, three gold medals in three days, and hope for more before the games close. Compare that to...
I was due to have a meeting with Ray Lewis last week, but an hour before the meeting he cancelled and failed to show up. London’s Tory mayor, Boris Johnson, appointed Lewis as his deputy respo...
I’ve spent the week down in Bournemouth at the Local Government Conference. That’s where council leaders and chief executives come together to discuss how councils can help their communities...
I’ve just finished a meeting with Tessa Jowell MP up at Westminster. As well as being Minister for London and the Olympics, parts of Tessa’s Dulwich and West Norwood constituency forms the e...
I was invited to speak on the Politics Show on BBC1 this morning. They were doing a broadcast from two different parts of London to discuss whether Boris Johnson will be Mayor of all of London or just...