At the risk of perpetuating an argument, Jessica Learmont-Criqui still doesn’t get it, concerning police numbers and funding. She again says the Mayor ‘issued a diktat’ to cut the police in Camden: I challenge her to produce any document which states this in the bald terms she asserts. She again fails to recognise that the root cause of the fall […]
Read moreDear editor, Former Conservative candidate Nneka Akwaeze has really gone out on a limb in her letter last week, questioning the rights of the Windrush Generation- even the former Home Secretary had to resign because of her mishandling of the issue of migration enforcement. The problem for Ms Akwaeze is she does not appreciate that the Windrush people were easy […]
Read moreDear editor Jessica Learmond-Criqui’s wild allegations against the Mayor cannot go unanswered and it is time for once she got her facts right. She accuses the Mayor of issuing a ‘diktat’ to take officers away from Hampstead. Arrant nonsense. Decisions re the deployment of officers are operational matters for the Metropolitan Police chain of command to decide, and it is […]
Read moreIt is not often that I agree with Theresa Villiers MP, but I wholeheartedly support her efforts to amend the Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 2009. When I was MP for Hendon, I was responsible for the original private member’s Bill, which I piloted through Parliament to become this Act. Inevitably, when trying to get a Bill passed into […]
Read moreDear Editor, The Government’s irresponsible decision to remove £700 million per year from TfL’s budget is extremely concerning at a time when we have heard that passenger numbers on the tube have begun to fall. Worryingly, this cut has also led to all non-essential road improvements being delayed for two years. The removal of this vital funding comes as a […]
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