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Ealing's Holocaust Memorial Day 2019

Ealing’s Holocaust Memorial Day 2019

Ealing’s Holocaust Memorial Day 2019

Each year Ealing Council hosts a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony to commemorate the Holocaust and other genocides, as well as to commit us to never allow history to repeat itself. I was pleased to be able to speak at this year’s ceremony at William Perkin High School, and to talk to the young people from…

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Sadiq Khan launches new council homes in Ealing

Sadiq Khan launches new council homes in Ealing

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Deputy Mayor James Murray have paid a visit to new council homes at Copley Hanwell W7. On the visit, which took place on Wednesday 23 January, they were shown 31 flats in Darlington Court by Councillor Peter Mason, cabinet member for housing planning and transformation.  These flats are the first new…

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Ealing’s Housing: Municipal Dreamers and Socialists

Ealing’s Housing: Municipal Dreamers and Socialists

Today I presented Ealing Labour’s ambitions to return local government to our long tradition of municipalism. Our proposals to once again have our council delivering at pace and scale a new generation of genuinely affordable housing is matched by our commitments to shaping the private sector and tackling poor standards in renting. I was particularly…

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We’ve shown how estate regeneration ballots can be won

We’ve shown how estate regeneration ballots can be won

Balloting residents on housing estates set for regeneration is the new normal in London, and with Labour having pledged to implement them nationwide, early adopters are demonstrating that getting public support is more than possible. Since February, any social landlord, housing association or council has been required to ballot residents on their estates in order…

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Remembrance Sunday – 100th Anniversary of Armistice

Remembrance Sunday – 100th Anniversary of Armistice

On the 100th Anniversary of the armistice of World War One, I had the immense honour of watching the Remembrance Sunday service and parade at the Cenotaph, from a balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Both of my parents served in the British Army, where they met during a Cold War posting in West…

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Ealing Council’s house building programme biggest in London

Ealing Council’s house building programme biggest in London

Two weeks ago, I was giving out awards to Ealing Council’s outstanding residents at our annual awards ceremony for tenants. My first as the cabinet member for housing. A great evening spent with people who are the backbone of many of our estates and communities across the Borough. Neighbours, working together to make their places…

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The UK’s housing crisis is hitting Ealing hard

The UK’s housing crisis is hitting Ealing hard

It is symptomatic of the broader challenges London’s economy faces. At one end of the Uxbridge Road, average incomes in Southall are £20k, whilst to the east in Chiswick they are more than double that figure. This growing income inequality, coupled with decades of short supply of new homes has led to an affordability crisis…

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Solving the housing crisis: a game of cat and mouse

Solving the housing crisis: a game of cat and mouse

Our labour, land and property markets are broken. London’s growing housing crisis is a stark warning to the rest of Britain. This unsustainable growth risks London’s future, and serves as a warning to the rest of the United Kingdom that growing economic inequality continues to fuel new divides both socially and geographically. London’s strengths are…

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Ealing Council Tenants Summer Newsletter

Ealing Council Tenants Summer Newsletter

London is an expensive city, and Ealing is no different. The cost of living alongside the shortage of housing means that prices continue to rise whilst the demand for new homes is not going away. Low pay and insecure work contracts mean that more people are having to get by on less income. These challenges…

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As long as Pete Willsman remains there can be no trust at all

As long as Pete Willsman remains there can be no trust at all

In the run up to a vote by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee to water down the IHRA definition and examples for use in its internal disciplinary procedures, something remarkable happened. Decades of delicate intercommunal management of cross communal rabbinic engagement went out the window. For a brief moment in time, and for one letter,…

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