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Labour’s energy bill freeze for Hendon blocked by Conservatives: and where was Offord?

Last Wednesday, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in Parliament blocked Labour’s proposal to freeze gas and electricity bills until 2017, which would save a typical family £120. Mr Offord, Hendon’s Conservative MP, didn’t turn up for the vote on the energy freeze and thus denied 44,912 households in Hendon a freeze on their bills. Andrew Dismore, Labour parliamentary candidate for […]

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58,211 Barnet residents may be stripped of the vote

Data revealed by a Parliamentary Question from Labour’s Shadow London Minister, Sadiq Khan, has today revealed that more than 58,000 Barnet residents may be denied the opportunity to vote. The Government has changed the way voters are registered from households to individuals. As part of the move, the Government have conducted a dry run of matching individual voters records to […]

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Dismore challenges Mayor on lack of action to give Londoners housing priority

During questions  on the Mayor’s draft Housing Strategy Andrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, challenged Mayor Boris Johnson on his inaction over the extent to which foreign  speculators are buying up homes in London, forcing up prices and depriving Londoners of the opportunity of having their own home. Mr Dismore told the Mayor: “On your visit […]

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