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2 November 2015 by sianberry
This week the Mayor of London announced a new London Living Wage of £9.40 per hour, up nearly 3 percent on last year. This calculation, made annually by independent experts at City Hall, is the minimum amount people need to earn to make ends meet in the capital. The fact that the London version is […]
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30 October 2015 by sianberry
Sarah Cope, Camden Green Party activist and co-ordinator of the Hornsey Lane Bridge Anti-Suicide Campaign, today issued this statement to welcome Haringey Council’s decision to approve anti-suicide measures at Archway Bridge: “I started the campaign along with other local residents in late 2010, after three men died at the bridge in just over three weeks. […]
28 October 2015 by sianberry
More than three quarters of voters say they would be more likely to vote for a London mayoral candidate with a strong environmental agenda. Polling organisation ICM asked voters in Enfield and Haringey whether they would be more or less likely to vote for a candidate who would act on a range of green issues. […]
Sian Berry, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has welcomed the move by Ucas – announced this morning by the Prime Minister – to remove candidates’ names from their application forms and pledged to mandate this for all GLA group agencies and contractors if she were Mayor. The anonymisation of applications and CVs […]
23 October 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, on Friday launches a solar energy system installed on the roof of the Busworks business centre in Holloway. The system will provide renewable electricity to power the businesses inside the building and recharge electric cars in the car park. The launch event coincides with the last […]
The Green Party candidate for London Mayor says protests outside the MIPIM property conference have her backing as they highlight that London’s rental market is out of control. Sian Berry says “the cost of private rent is out of control” and that she herself – the only Mayoral candidate who does not own her home […]
20 October 2015 by sianberry
A Green councillor in London has been inundated with grateful messages from the Muslim community after convincing her colleagues on Labour-run Islington Council to pass a motion requesting changes to the Government’s controversial Prevent scheme. Caroline Russell, the sole non-Labour member on the North London council, proposed a motion last week calling on the council […]
15 October 2015 by sianberry
The EU was on the point of ruling that the fines from VW and any other culprits in the diesel scandal should go directly to local communities, the London Green Party revealed yesterday. But it fell at the last hurdle following a Conservative wrecking tactic supported by the group on which British Tory MEPs sit. […]
Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry has welcomed this week’s ICM poll which found that more voters than ever before plan to vote Green in the London mayoral election. Thirteen percent of those polled said they would consider voting for Berry as their first preference. In the study, commissioned by campaigners Here Now, voters also expressed […]
10 October 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has called on her fellow candidates to oppose all new airport runways in the south-east of England, not just at Heathrow. Speaking at today’s rally against Heathrow’s third runway in Parliament Square, Sian added her voice to the cross-party campaign against the proposal. She said […]