Ken Livingstone today launched a new campaign against rising violent crime and police cuts in London, pledging to: 1. Reverse Boris Johnson's cuts to 1,700 police officers; 2. Reinstate sergeants to all 600 Safer Neighbourhood Teams, more of which will be beefed up to a minimum of nine officers, reversing the Tory Mayor's cut to 300 sergeants in 2011. According to the Metropolitan Police...

Central bankers and public interest groups descend on the European parliament to demand rules that make financial institutions safer without stifling the economy

Overseas budget is vital to Britain's prosperity, Andrew Mitchell tells James Kirkup in Nepal.

Andrew Mitchell is passionate about girls.

An open letter to Councillor Lee Rowley, Cabinet Member for Parking: Lee, Everybody supports double yellow lines at dropped kerbs in order to make crossing the road safer for the disabled, the elderly and parents with prams. But Westminster Council's proposals go way beyond just protecting dropped kerbs from parked cars. It has been used as an excuse to remove 5 miles of safe, free evening pa...

One question thrown up by the financial crisis is who should watch over the regulators who are meant to be making the system safer

Judging by their Safer Space policy, the occupiers are big fans of Blair-style, PC petty authoritarianism.

Many Lib Dems will know Duwayne Brooks as a dedicated Lib Dem, a councillor in Lewisham and the party’s lead member on the Safer Communities Board at the Local Government Group. To most of the public, though, he is better known as the best friend of Stephen Lawrence, whose murder was the subject of the

Sometimes we can get caught up in the big issues and forget about the small every day reasons we get interested and involved in politics. Our position in Europe has been the big story nationally this week, but locally in Essex we have seen a schoolboy killed and a schoolgirl seriously injured outside schools this

Gary Pool, Islington Labour's candidate in the St Mary's by-election, has set out his priorities if elected in the 10 November St Mary's Ward by-election, saying: "I am honoured to have been selected as Islington Labour's candidate in the St. Mary's ward by-election. "My number one priority is to make St. Mary's a safer place. Through my extensive experience of workin...