Following the Hakim Berkani Employment Tribunal case where the judge stated that parking firm NSL operated a "clandestine quota system", and BBC reports suggesting that NSL, working for Kensington and Chelsea Council, set its wardens minimum ticket quotas, which is illegal, Labour Opposition Councillors have: * Called for a scrutiny of the role of the Council and NSL in this scandal. * Asked why H...

Labour Westminster Councillors say that the prospect of the election of a new Leader of Westminster City Council by just 48 Conservative Councillors, 47 of whom consistently voted to support outgoing Leader Colin Barrow's failed West End parking charge plans, is an 'insult to democracy'. Labour say that the new Leader of the Council should be elected by all 250,000 Westminster resid...

Telegraph View: women are better at parking than men, says a new study. If only someone had told the Prime Minister.

David Cameron must have expected bumps and scrapes in politics - but perhaps not the sort he was accused of after helping a woman into a tight parking spot.

Below is an Open Letter to Mike More, Chief Executive, Westminster City Council, on the decision to scrap the West End Parking evening and Sunday parking charges and to set up a 'West End Commission'. Dear Mike West End Parking and 'West End Commission' I understand that you will be preparing a report recommending the establishment of a 'West End Commission' following...

Labour Councillors have welcomed Westminster Council's belated decision to scrap its proposed West End evening and Sunday parking charges but have asked who is going to foot the £1 million bill for the parking charge fiasco. Labour Councillors say that the Council has run up a £1 million bill, including £300,000 for the cost of hundreds of new street signs which were ordered...

Victory for coalition of business leaders, night workers, clergymen and actors over ‘tax on nightlife’

Labour leader says UK consumers are being exploited by "predatory" companies and is urging Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene to stop exorbitant charges for savings, holidays, banking and parking.

Labour has called on the four candidates for Leader of Westminster City Council to support a motion tabled for the City Council's meeting on 25th January which would end the confusion and uncertainty over Westminster's proposed evening and Sunday West End parking charges. Having been left in the lurch by former Council Leader Colin Barrow, Labour say that the four candidates to succeed h...

Imagine you're a Labour activist campaigning on the doorstep and you encounter someone complaining about cuts to their local services - perhaps SureStart, a library, care services or essential disabled care. What do you say? A few months ago most Labour activists would have said they opposed the Tory cuts, and a Labour council or govt would have made some cuts but not to the same proportion o...