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Posts Tagged ‘liberal democrats’

Hackney Central by-election candidates announced

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 2 June 2026 at 14:15
Photograph of a polling station

Hackney Central residents are set to cast their vote once again following the recent local elections

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Dalston by-election candidates announced

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 2 June 2026 at 12:18
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

A little more than seven weeks after the local elections, residents of this ward will be heading to the polls to cast their votes once again

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London mayor vows to work with Reform UK and Green councils across London after 7 May elections

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Saturday 18 April 2026 at 12:25
Sadiq Khan

‘As long as I’m here, I’ll carry on working with politicians from all parties for the common good, which is our constituents’

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Sadiq Khan breaks ranks with Labour government to call Gaza tragedy ‘genocide’ for first time

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 September 2025 at 11:34
Sadiq Khan at People's Question Time, 17 September 2025

Mayor of London has previously resisted calls to label Israel’s military campaign a genocide but now says it’s “inescapable” to conclude that

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‘Treating us all as suspects’ – Doubts over success of Met Police’s Live Facial Recognition technology

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Saturday 16 August 2025 at 09:37
Critical: Green party London Assembly Member and Dalston councillor Cllr Zoë Garbett

Critics have branded the use of LFR, which maps a person’s unique facial features, and matches them against faces on watchlists, as an ‘erosion of civil liberties

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London Fields and Stoke Newington by-election candidates announced

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 August 2024 at 13:32
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Voters are off to the polls on 12 September 2024

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Mayoral candidates quizzed on transport at Hackney Cycling Campaign’s hustings

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 3 November 2023 at 15:57
Hackney Cycling Campaign co-ordinator Garmon ap Garth introduces mayoral hustings, with Zoë Garbett, Green, and Simon de Deney, Liberal Democrats

In the absence of two of the four invited mayoral candidates, residents put the Greens’ Zoë Garbett and the Liberal Democrats’ Simon de Deney on the spot

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Liberal Democrats select Simon de Deney for mayoral by-election

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 9 October 2023 at 11:38
Simon de Deney

Actor and former school governor runs again

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Coronavirus: Town Hall forming group to help residents support their neighbours

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 16 March 2020 at 20:30

Local Liberal Democrat, Green and Women’s Equality Parties all offer to mobilise memberships for volunteer effort

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Hackney North Lib Dem candidate dropped over ‘clearly offensive’ tweets

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Sunday 24 November 2019 at 22:24

Liberal Democrats say party ‘brought into disrepute’ as Ben Mathis accuses Jo Swinson of ‘throwing him under the bus’

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Clissold ward: Meet the candidates for the by-election taking place on same day as general

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 14 November 2019 at 15:26

Prospective Hackney councillors introduce their policies and backgrounds to voters

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Liberal Democrat activists accuse Town Hall of ‘completely losing control’ of fly-tipping

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 22 August 2019 at 18:35

Council’s own figures still in doubt as pledge made to develop system to ‘more accurately map’ locations of fly-tips

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Labour holds on to seat in Victoria ward by-election

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 October 2018 at 10:51

Winning candidate Penny Wrout puts healthy 25 per cent turnout down to hard-fought campaign

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Liberal Democrats warn against ‘complacency’ on violent crime

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 1 October 2018 at 17:00

Council community safety chief hits back at proposals for joint violence reduction unit with Tower Hamlets as ‘out of touch’

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Dispute blows up over opposition leader’s special allowance

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 6 August 2018 at 14:31
Councillor Simche Steinberger

Cllr Levy’s pay as first opposition group leader has remained substantially unchanged since 2015

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Liberal Democrats wiped out in Hackney as Labour gains three Cazenove seats

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 4 May 2018 at 19:59
Caroline Woodley, Anthony McMahon and Sam Pallis

Council now has 52 Labour councillors and five Conservatives

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Mayoral candidates quizzed at Hackney Citizen hustings at the Arcola Theatre

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 30 April 2018 at 14:23

Panel answers questions at sold-out event ahead of elections

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Labour and Lib Dems clash on knife crime policy – as Caroline Selman says proposals are nothing new

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 27 April 2018 at 16:45

Hackney Liberal Democrats say Violence Reduction Unit would ‘treat violence like a disease’

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‘Hackney Heroine’ Pauline Pearce vows to tackle knife crime if elected Mayor

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 9 April 2018 at 12:31

‘I don’t want it to be the norm in Hackney. Not on my watch’

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Leader – Political persuasions

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 April 2018 at 09:17
HC Crest

Your three votes can bolster democratic accountability in Hackney

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