Just as the Fib Dems gather to celebrate 10 years of 'success' here in Haringey, new figures published in the last twenty-four hours have revealed the Lib Dems slumped into THIRD and FOURTH place in Tottenham (Hunter's home turf) in the May 1 London elections. Electoral bigwigs have released the votes for London Mayor, GLA Constituency Member and London Top-Up List broken out by local authority wa...

There was a certain tension among the Tories yesterday at Mayor’s Question Time in London: In a change to the usual format, the London Assembly were considering the Mayor’s Draft Budget. Naturally, value for money was being debated, and who better to champion it than Conservative Assembly Member Brian Coleman, he of the expensive taxi habit. He

Conniving north London Lib Dems accused of dog-whistle politics. More soon on what they are up to in Camden, where the Mayor (an apolitical post) was recently called in by officers to be reminded not to abuse his office for political purposes.

Worth reading this fromTom Papworth, Director of Policy for Liberal Vision. He is a Liberal Democrat councillor for Crystal Palace in the London Borough of Bromley, and a fellow of the Adam Smith Institute. London Region Lib Dems have been obliged to postpone the London Region conference. Both the initial and the replacement venues asked the Lib Dems to cancel

London Lib Dem mayoral candidate Brian Paddick and leader of the London Lib Dems Caroline Pidgeon have criticised Boris Johnson’s 7% price hike for public transport fares which came into force today. Here’s the party’s official statement: Commenting on the Mayor’s 2012 fare rises being introduced today Brian Paddick, the Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate said:

The London Evening Standard has the story: David Cameron today hailed the defection of a Liberal Democrat London mayoral hopeful to the Tories. Barrister Chamali Fernando, 30, from Finchley, ran to be the Lib-Dem candidate for Mayor of London but was defeated by Brian Paddick in 2007. Ms Fernando’s brother Chandila is also leaving the Lib-Dems to join

The Labour Member of the Greater London Assembly for Brent and Harrow, Navin Shah, has asked the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to intervene and stop Brent Liberal Democrats from misusing public funds for a transport scheme that nobody wants. The Kingsbury Road traffic scheme, which has been opposed by local residents, local councillors and even the full Council is to be rammed through by a Liber...

There were three necessary but not sufficient conditions that had to be fulfilled before I could declare myself as a candidate to be nominated as the Lib Dem Candidate for Mayor of London in 2012. That I honestly believed that I had the support of a wide range of people from both within and outside

Yesterday London Region chair Jonathan Fryer outlined the timetable for selecting the party’s London Assembly and Mayor candidates. But who will be in the running to be the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London? As previously covered, Lembit Opik has publicly declared his intention to go for the selection. Regular readers of this site will

It’s been a fascinating — and characteristicaly bizarre — last 48 hours in the contest to become the Lib Dems’ London mayoral candidate. There was the first hustings, reported here on LDV by Simon McGrath, which attracted comments from Brian Paddick, and some robust thoughts from Lembit Opik’s campaign manager Ed Joyce. Further controversy was