Dear Editor, Baroness Dido Harding, who leads the Government’s struggling Test and Trace scheme, has finally acknowledged what we have known for a long time- that a significant number of people are not self-isolating with COVID-19 symptoms for financial reasons. In fact, a recent Government-funded study has revealed that, during the first lockdown, just 18% of respondents in the UK […]
Read moreTube Noise [1] Question No: 2020/4434 Andrew Dismore Residents in Fitzrovia are receiving contradictory responses from TfL regarding corrugation on the rails on the Victoria Line around Warren Street. They wrote to me just a few weeks ago to say that they would not be carrying out grinding in the area in the October / November grinding round, because there […]
Read moreAt today’s Mayor’s Question Time, Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore AM questioned London Mayor Sadiq Khan over the Conservative Government’s Waking Watch Relief Fund con trick, which provides no money for waking watches at all. Mr Dismore asked the Mayor: ‘The Government has announced a ‘Waking Watch Relief Fund’ that will pay for fire […]
Read morePN-012 Overwhelming majority of customers in favour of face covering requirement on public transport seven months after it came into force, with around 90 per cent compliance at the busiest times of the day An expanding team of TfL enforcement officers are cracking down on the non-complying minority who are not exempt, with 128,000 people stopped by officers, and 1,700 […]
Read morePeople who work in the UK’s financial services once believed that they could bank on a Conservative government. But they have been well and truly abandoned by the current one at the worst possible time. With great fanfare, Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrated the Brexit deal agreed before Christmas. But, incredibly, financial services — a sector worth £132bn a year […]
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