At Mayor’s Question Time on 19th March, Andrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden raised the Higgins report with Mayor Boris Johnson (see webcast link below) Mr Dismore said: “I welcome the Higgins report decision finally to recognise that the HS2/HS1 proposed link was fatally flawed after 4 years of uncertainty and distress for residents, but […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore, London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden spoke out against the Mayor’s decision to allow the Metropolitan Police to buy two water cannons, at Mayor’s Question Time on 19th March. (See webcast below) Mr Dismore said: “The Mayor’s decision is deeply worrying. This decision is another nail in the coffin of the traditional British model of policing […]
Read moreDismore demands Barnet’s Conservative MPs must ‘put constituency before party’ and vote against the Health Secretary’s scheme to exclude local people form decisions over local NHS hospital trusts in financial difficulty. Clause 119 of the Care Bill would give Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt the power to close or downgrade services without local people having their say unless it is blocked […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore has today written to the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency Dr Paul Leinster demanding that they test the Pymmes Brook for contaminants from the Cat Hill construction site. Kim Coleman of the Cat Hill protest sent Mr Dismore images of waste from the construction site entering the Pymmes Brook at the water way of the Oak Hill […]
Read moreDuring the London Assembly plenary with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan Howe on 5th March, Andrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden accused the Commissioner of complacency over race discrimination in the Met. Mr Dismore has been demanding answers about race discrimination cases against the police for over a year and has still not been […]
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