Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has written to the board of trustees of the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley urging them to reconsider plans for a partnership with Curzon. The plans would see Curzon Cinemas take over the running of the Phoenix, and the name of the cinema re-branded to “Curzon Phoenix Cinema”. Proponents of […]
Read moreArticle from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-25/u-k-suffers-brexit-trade-setback-over-copy-and-paste-wto-terms International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said his plan to quickly normalize the U.K.’s World Trade Organization commitments had failed, forcing the government to enter into what will likely be lengthy negotiations with other members on basic terms of trade after Brexit. It’s a significant blow to the U.K., which was proposing to replicate the European […]
Read moreIn response to the Chancellor’s Budget Announcement, Labour’s London Assembly Economy Spokesperson, Andrew Dismore AM, said: “Today’s budget will leave Londoners asking when they will actually see the end to austerity that they were promised. Eight years of lost pay growth, and cuts to welfare and public services, have left many in hardship and almost everybody worse off. The Chancellor’s […]
Read moreTube noise complaints [1] Question No: 2018/2799 Andrew Dismore How many outstanding complaints in terms of a) number of sites and b) number of individual complaints are there concerning tube noise, broken down by line? Written response from the Mayor There are currently 236 ongoing complaints, across 64 sites. Bakerloo line: 2 (ongoing complaints) Central line: 27 District: 19 […]
Read moreLondon Resilience Partnership has published a report ahead of the Brexit meeting today. It’s here https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/london_resilience_partnership_-_brexit_resilience_report.pdf Here are the key quotes and added some commentary: “for many [resilience partner organisations] the resilience summit itself was a first step or very early phase in their contingency planning.” There is less than six months until the UK leaves the EU and […]
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