Dear Editor, I want to urge businesses across our local community to sign up to the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard, launched this week. In doing so, they’d be playing their part in raising the bar when it comes to promoting workers’ rights and workplace wellbeing, whilst also boosting their business’ stability. To achieve accreditation, employers are required to […]
Read moreDear Editor, The causes of violent crime are multi-faceted and complex, and we know that these have been compounded by the Government’s £1 billion cut to the Met Police’s budget by 2023. But it has no place in London, and we must do everything in our capacity to stop it in its tracks. This must include being tough on the […]
Read moreDear Editor, I am writing in response to Jessica Learmond-Criqui’s latest letter, ‘Mayor still has time to help Met’ in which she makes a number of nebulous claims and accusations. However, it has been encouraging to see that Ms Learmond-Criqui acknowledges the role that the Government has played, in what she colourfully refers to, as the “demise” of the Metropolitan […]
Read moreDear Editor, It was disappointing and troubling to see Conservative Councillor Roberto Weedon-Sanz take to Twitter last Wednesday to use the aftermath of the murder in Barnet last week as an opportunity to make a political attack. The Councillor placed the blame for the incident, which led to the tragic murder of one man and two others hospitalised, at the […]
Read moreDear Editor, I see Jessica Learmond-Criqui (last week’s letters section) has woken up after a seemingly prolonged period of silence on the same issue of police numbers. However, it will not surprise readers that I completely disagree with all the main points of her letter. Ms Learmond-Criqui knows all too well that the drop in police officer numbers we have […]
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