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Research by the environmental charity Possible, carried out via Freedom of Information requests submitted to all 32 boroughs and the City of London, found that, as of October 2022, Havering, Harrow, Bexley and Barking and Dagenham were among those to have installed the fewest public electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the capital.

The Conservative Party is currently in the process of selecting a candidate to take on Mr Khan in 2024 and has announced a shortlist of three names: Susan Hall, Mozammel Hossain, and Daniel Korski.The Green Party has also named a candidate but the Liberal Democrats are still deciding.The election will be held on May 2, simultaneously with elections to the London Assembly and local elections.

Neil Jameson, founder of the activist group Citizens UK, who has died aged 76, harnessed the power of community organising to achieve social and political change most significantly as the driving force behind the living wage campaign.Citizens UK began in 1996 as a collective of east London churches, mosques and other community institutions called Telco (the East London Citizens Organisation), committed to trying to alleviate some of the social ills facing their congregations.

The expansion of London's ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) will have a "colossal" impact on people who live in North Kent, according to residents.The scheme charges drivers of vehicles that do not meet emissions standards, and is due to be expanded to London's boundary in August.Pro-ULEZ campaigners say the scheme is vital to help reduce air pollution.

Thousands more Londoners will be able to swap their polluting vehicles for greener alternatives, the London mayor has announced.Sadiq Khan has expanded the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) scrappage scheme to cover families receiving child benefits and small businesses across the capital from the end of July.

Priti Patel, who was home secretary in Johnson's cabinet and widely seen as a fierce ally of the former prime minister, has been made a dame commander.Keen Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg has received a knighthood alongside Michael Fabricant who often went on the airwaves to defend Johnson during Partygate.

A number of senior officials who were implicated in the partygate scandal have been nominated in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said it was sickening that those who held boozy lockdown bashes during the pandemic in Downing Street had been recognised by the former prime minister.

A former London mayoral candidate who was photographed with others at a mid-lockdown gathering at Conservative Party headquarters, and a high profile Tory mayor have been given peerages in Boris Johnson's resignation honours.Sean Bailey resigned as chairman of the London Assembly's police and crime committee after a photo showed him posing with Tory aides while raising glasses beside buffet food when London was under coronavirus rules.

Boris Johnson confronted the King, essentially squaring up to him for branding the Rwanda asylum policy appalling, it has been alleged.Guto Harri, who served as No 10's director of communications under the former prime minister, claimed Mr Johnson told him he went in quite hard on the then-prince.Mr Johnson disputed his long-standing ally's account as inaccurate, with a source saying he deplores any commentary on conversations with royals.

Boris Johnson confronted the King, essentially squaring up to him for branding the Rwanda asylum policy appalling, it has been alleged.Guto Harri, who served as No 10's director of communications under the former prime minister, claimed Mr Johnson told him he went in quite hard on the then-prince.Mr Johnson disputed his long-standing ally's account as inaccurate, with a source saying he deplores any commentary on conversations with royals.

Sadiq Khan has hit back at Boris Johnson's criticism of the planned expansion of London's ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez).The zone is due to be expanded to cover the whole of the capital from August 29 to boost air quality, with a 12.50 daily fee for vehicles not meeting minimum standards.Mr Khan said he will take no lectures from his predecessor as London mayor, Mr Johnson, who in a video posted on Twitter on Wednesday, accused Mr Khan of expanding the scheme to rake in money from motorists.

The Tory government's plan to place asylum seekers in a barge at an east London dock has been rejected, Sadiq Khan has told Suella Braverman.The London mayor urged the home secretary to rule out use of barges in the capital as he attacked the Rishi Sunak government's cruel and inhumane policy to deal with migrants arriving by small boats.

T he Metropolitan Police Commissioner has defended the force's policing operation during the Coronation saying there would be much more serious questions to answer if not for their actions.In a public letter written to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sir Mark Rowley said he did not see the coronation as an operation where he needed to call out our shortcomings adding: No major operation is ever perfect.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has defended the force's policing operation during the coronation saying there would be much more serious questions to answer if not for their actions.In a public letter written to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sir Mark Rowley said he did not see the coronation as an operation where he needed to call out our shortcomings adding: No major operation is ever perfect.

A Tory mayoral hopeful has said he shares Londoners' frustrations with high housing costs, as he was priced out of the capital himself.Samuel Kasumu, who is running to be the Conservative candidate in next year's race for City Hall, said he and his wife were forced to move out to the Home Counties when they were looking to buy a house.

F our in 10 Londoners are considering leaving the capital to escape toxic air pollution, a poll claimed on Wednesday.New research revealed that 39 per cent of people would move out of the capital in search of cleaner air the highest number of any region in the country.This was followed by Birmingham (36 per cent) and the North West (29 per cent), covering Manchester and Liverpool.

Free meals will be provided during school holidays and at weekends to low-income Londoners struggling with the spiralling cost of living, the London mayor has announced.Sadiq Khan has pledged 3.5 million as part of an emergency funding package and will work with charities to provide 10 million meals to families over the next 12 months, according to City Hall.

Workers on London Underground are facing increasing levels of verbal abuse and threats of violence from passengers after telling them that Tube stations are closed, a union is warning.The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said passengers are taking out their frustration on staff, leaving some having to take stress-related sick leave.

A strike by Tube drivers and station staff will shut the London underground on Wednesday, bringing widespread disruption to the capital.Trains will continue to run as normal on the Elizabeth line and London Overground, but Transport for London warned that those services, as well as buses, would be much busier and could have some disruption and delay.

Tube workers in the RMT union will strike on 15 March, joining Aslef in a 24-hour stoppage that will bring the London Underground to a halt.The strike, on the day of the budget, will be the first this year in London by the RMT, in a long-running dispute over pensions and reducing the number of staff.

The family of a missing teenager whom the convicted murderer Levi Bellfield claims to have kidnapped and murdered say they have lost trust and confidence in the police after a tense two-hour meeting with homicide detectives.The family of Elizabeth Chau said their hopes of answers after 24 years were dashed after Metropolitan police detectives told them this week they would not immediately dig at a site where the serial killer confessed to burying her.

Sadiq Khan has switched on London's first ever celebratory Ramadan lights.The installation of 30,000 sustainable lights, which on this scale are the first in Europe, will illuminate Piccadilly Circus for the month of Ramadan.The festival is observed by Muslims, including the London mayor, who this year will fast in daylight hours from 22 March to 21 April.

The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been urged to use his spring budget to extend free school meals for all primary pupils to tackle the child poverty endemic.The Scottish government has committed to providing free school meals for all primary schoolchildren, while in Wales the rollout of universal primary free school meals began in September.

The King is to embrace a 17th century tradition to mark his reign with a special ceremony in which key British institutions reaffirm their loyalty to the monarch at Buckingham Palace.Charles will receive the privileged bodies a group of 27 organisations and corporations which will present loyal addresses to the sovereign in person in the Ballroom of the historic royal residence on Thursday.