Shaun Bailey's

SHAUN BAILEY MY PLAN TO GIVE LONDON A FRESH START Shaun Bailey’s Manifesto - MY PLAN TO GIVE LONDON A FRESH START CONTENTS

FOREWORD 4

SAFER STREETS AND A FRESH START 9 Improving public safety for all Londoners Tackling the root causes of crime Stopping violence against women and girls

A BIGGER AND BETTER TRANSPORT NETWORK 19 Fixing and Funding TfL Ge!ing London Moving Promoting Active Travel for Londoners

AFFORDABLE HOMES AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES 27 Building the homes Londoners need Creating a more beautiful London Suppo"ing London’s renters Helping to house and suppo" London’s homeless population Strengthening and empowering London’s communities

LAUNCHING LONDON’S RECOVERY 35 Cu!ing the cost of living for all Londoners Creating good jobs to boost London’s recovery Suppo"ing London’s businesses on the road to recovery

CLEANER AIR AND A GREENER CITY Reducing London’s poor air quality and moving towards a 43 carbon-neutral city Improving biodiversity throughout London Improving the natural environment for all Londoners

A LONDON THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE 51 FOREWORD

My grandfather was a Windrush immigrant who fought for Britain in the Second World War. His grandson is the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London.

This story is only possible in London.

We live in the greatest city on ea"h. We I’ve spent a lifetime helping people get a lead the world in everything from fashion fresh sta". So I understand the suppo" that to #nance. We are a multiracial melting pot Londoners need from City Hall — and I know that thrives because every community has a that we’re not ge!ing it right now. voice. We are a global city with the hea" of a village. And I’m grateful for that every day. Look at the problems we face. Knife crime has reached historic highs. Good homes are I was born in a council house and raised by una$ordable. Our transpo" network is a single mum. I was homeless for pa" of my struggling to cope. And the cost of living twenties and struggled to make ends meet keeps rising. for a lot longer. But thanks to the oppo"unities this city provides, I managed These are the same problems that to turn my life around. Londoners faced when I was a youth worker. The same problems that Sadiq Khan I was a youth worker for twenty years, promised to #x. But here we are, #ve years helping young people get out of crime and into his #rst term, with nothing but broken ful#l their potential. I joined the Prime promises to show for it. Minister’s team in Downing Street to deliver the National Citizen Service, the Sadiq Khan promised his ‘#rst priority’ would largest youth programme in British history. be ‘tackling the housing crisis.’ But instead I worked as a government adviser, expanding of delivering 80,000 new homes a year, he access to the Army Cadets programme in delivered just 16,700 a$ordable homes in schools across the country. #ve years. He broke 20 out of 30 housing manifesto promises — and now we’re in the middle of a housing crisis.

4 Foreword FOREWORD Sadiq Khan promised to ‘make London safer and more secure.’ But instead of cu!ing crime, he cut police budgets by £38 million. He broke 15 out of 20 crime manifesto promises — and now knife crime has risen by 60% and robberies have risen by 86% .

Sadiq Khan promised to keep transpo" ‘a$ordable.’ But instead of lowering costs, he increased the congestion charge and raised fares. He broke 30 of 44 transpo" manifesto promises — and now countless Londoners are struggling to make ends meet.

Sadiq Khan promised to be ‘the greenest Mayor ever.’ But instead of planting two million trees, he planted just 286,000. He broke 18 of 35 environmental manifesto promises — and now too many children are growing up breathing di"y air.

As we emerge from the pandemic, we can’t a$ord to go back to the old normal. We can’t a$ord more broken promises. We need a fresh sta" — and I’ve got a plan to deliver it.

As Mayor, I’ll work with every resident in every community. And together, we’ll build the kind of city our children deserve to inherit.

We’ll make our streets safer with 8,000 more police. We’ll get #rst-time buyers on the housing ladder with 100,000 homes that will be sold for £100,000 each. We’ll clean up London’s air with a zero-emission bus %eet by 2025. And we’ll #x and fund TfL, reversing the congestion charge hike while planning for TfL’s future.

Safer streets. A$ordable homes. A be!er transpo" network. And a lower cost of living. You can make it happen on 6 May — but you’ve got to vote for it.

So let’s not go back to the broken promises of a Mayor who’s more interested in press o&cers than police o&cers. Let’s build a safer, fairer, more a$ordable city — and let’s give London the fresh sta" it needs.

Foreword 5

1 Making our streets safer — by hiring 8,000 more police and reopening 38 police stations. Funded by long-term savings at City Hall and money from the Mayor’s Community Infrastructure Levy.

2 Helping young people get out of crime — with 32 new youth centres and 4,000 new youth workers. Funded by £450million from unclaimed Oyster Card balances.

3 Ge!ing young Londoners on the housing ladder - by building 100,000 homes and selling them for £100,000 each. Funded from the £4billion that the Government gave the Mayor to build a$ordable homes.

4 Cleaning up London’s air — with a zero-emission bus %eet by 2025 and interest-free loans for black cab drivers to go electric. Funded by a ten-year sponsorship deal, like Santander’s sponsorship of our bike-hire scheme.

5 Fixing TfL’s "nances — by introducing corporate sponsorship to the Tube network, so we protect under-18s’ and over-60s’ free travel. Corporate sponsorship is set to raise £490 million.

6 A bigger, be!er transpo# network — with a London Infrastructure Bank to fund repairs and new investment. By combining public and private funding to improve transpo" services.

7 Reversing the Congestion Charge hike — and scrapping plans to extend the £12.50 daily ULEZ charge to Outer London. Funded by savings from Sadiq Khan’s £9.56billion of waste at TfL.

8 Saving each London household £307 — by reversing Sadiq Khan’s 10% council tax hike. Funded by cu!ing the Mayor’s o&ce and PR budget.

9 Standing up for Outer London boroughs — with 30-minutes free parking for high streets and scrapping plans for an Outer London Tax. Funded by reinvesting the receipts from Sadiq Khan’s Congestion Charge hike.

10 Working constructively with government — so we get a be!er deal for London. By working with ministers, instead of a!acking them from the sidelines.

Shaun Bailey’s plan will create 924,000 jobs over the next "ve years

10 Point Plan 7 8 Section SAFER STREETS AND A FRESH START Improving public safety for all Londoners Tackling the root causes of crime Stopping violence against women and girls

Section 9 SAFER STREETS AND A FRESH START

“ I will make London safe. As Mayor I will stamp out crime and the root causes of crime in London.”

London is the greatest city on ea#h. But right now, we’re not living up to our potential. Over the last "ve years, ordinary Londoners have sta#ed to feel like our city just isn’t working for them. Knife crime has hit record highs, the homicide rate is the worst it’s been in over a decade, and even more young people have been recruited into criminal gangs. So as Mayor, I will put public safety "rst, make our streets safer and give London the fresh sta# it needs.

The #rst duty of London’s Mayor is to keep As Mayor, I will hire 8,000 more police our streets safe. But by any measure, Sadiq o&cers and reopen the 38 police stations Khan has failed. London in 2020 was less that Sadiq Khan closed. Helping to take safe than London in 2016. criminals o$ our streets. But I will also tackle the causes of crime. I will give young • Homicides were at their highest in 11 people a way out by hiring 4,000 more youth years workers and opening a youth centre in every • Robbery was up 86 per cent borough. So, young Londoners can access • Knife crime was up 60 per cent the suppo" they need, no ma!er where they live. As we recover from the pandemic, we can’t a$ord to go back to record levels of crime. Improving public safety for all Londoners We need a fresh sta". And I’ve got a plan to deliver it. At the sta" of his term, when crime was sta"ing to rise, Sadiq Khan made the I was a youth worker for over twenty years. decision to close over half of London’s police So, I know what it takes to cut crime. stations to the public. There are now entire boroughs with only one police station.

10 Safer streets and a fresh sta! The savings Sadiq Khan made from closing As Mayor of London I will: 38 police front counters generated only a small amount of money compared to his • Reopen the 38 police stations closed by own waste at City Hall. Indeed, Sadiq Khan’s Sadiq Khan. Police stations open to the sta&ng budget at the GLA has grown by public increase police visibility, make the over 80 per cent since 2016, which means repo"ing of crimes much easier and that last year alone Londoners paid an extra deter criminals. Having a more visible and unnecessary £29.5m for Sadiq Khan’s local police presence in the community is mismanagement. And the problem doesn’t reassuring to local residents and will play stop at police stations. Sadiq Khan broke his an impo"ant role in making Londoners promise to maintain at least 32,000 police safe again. I will use mayoral community o&cers, and he watered down his infrastructure funds to reopen these commitment to restore neighbourhood closed front counters. policing. • Ensure that there are 40,000 police on Unlike Sadiq Khan, I understand that safe London’s streets by hiring 8,000 new streets aren’t a luxury - they’re a necessity. o$cers. This would place London ahead That’s why I will deliver record numbers of of Paris and New York in terms of police police. And I will make sure these o&cers o&cers per capita, and it is critical that have the resources, tools and suppo" they we expand the police service so that it need from City Hall to keep us all safe. With is the criminals who feel under pressure, more o&cers on our streets, we will also be not our communities. Despite the able to focus on tackling the causes of crime lockdown, many forms of crime were up - giving young people a route out of gangs in 2020 compared to the same period and into work. the year before, so the visibility of police has never been more impo"ant. I will fund this through Home O&ce funding, and savings generated at City Hall.

Safer streets and a fresh sta! 11 • Reinstate genuine neighbourhood under pressure, not our communities. As policing. I will use the tried and tested such, I will suppo" the police’s e$o"s to Safer Neighbourhood Team structure crack down on knife-crime, including an of one Sergeant, two Constables and increase in stop and search. three PCSOs per London ward. This will be made possible through extra police • Roll-out new Scan and Search hires and it will replace Sadiq Khan’s technology. If the police are to truly watered-down version of neighbourhood deter criminals and take back control of policing, which reduced community the streets, a renewed and innovative policing suppo". I will reinvest in the approach to stop and search must be training of our police to help them instituted. I will introduce new infrared become community problem-solvers, so scanning technology, which is used in that they can deliver safer other countries like the U.S.A. and neighbourhoods for Londoners. Israel, to detect concealed weapons in large crowds and busy transpo" hubs. • Create a Mayoral Sentencing Unit. This Scan and Search technology is by new team will work on behalf of the default, non-invasive and it would ensure public to challenge sentences which are that more weapons are detected, arrests too lenient. Nearly three qua"ers of the made and lives saved. public still think that sentences are too lenient. The Mayor’s Sentencing Unit will • Create a burglary ‘%ying squad’. This new assess every single sentence team in Scotland Yard would address the handed down for violent and sexual crime steep rise in burglary rates – and sharp in London and ask that those that are fall in prosecutions - across London. This too lenient be reviewed under the Unduly will consist of 150 dedicated detectives Lenient Sentences Scheme. Londoners working to track and provide intelligence deserve to know they are protected from on burglary gangs, in conjunction with violent criminals. local borough commands, to clear the backlog. The specialist squad would also • Implement Operation Blunt 3 to ensure reduce the number of break-ins by wider use of stop and search powers. helping borough commands on This will be a refreshed approach to burglary prevention, incident policing in London, and is required to investigation and how to track gangs improve public safety. Operation Blunt 3 across the city. I will commit to making will include increased frequency of police sure that a police o&cer will respond patrols, more o&cers on the streets, a in-person to every single residential focus on crime hotspots and more burglary call-out. I will also launch a pilot intelligence-led stop and search. As pa" program to provide free burglar alarms of Operation Blunt 3, I will use the for over-65s replicating the successful successful strategies that Boris Johnson model in Hillingdon Council and done in implemented as Mayor of London that consultation with local borough brought London’s crime rate down by 11 command units. per cent, youth violence by 14 per cent, and murders by 26 per cent. I will work • Lobby Government to introduce with individuals, communities and mandatory sentences for knife and acid voluntary groups to develop holistic possession. Prior to lockdown violent strategies to tackle violent crime in knife crime in London was up by 40 per London’s crime hotspots. cent. Currently only those convicted of a second possession o$ence are subject • Back the police to increase the use of to statutory minimum terms. If someone intelligence-led stop and search. Stop is found with a knife or acid they should and search is an impo"ant tool for the face consequences on the #rst occasion. police to improve public safety. As a I will lobby the Government to introduce youth worker for over 20 years I have mandatory custodial sentences with seen #rst-hand how this can keep intent on the #rst o$ence, instead of on communities safe. Because it is the second. It is vital that people who impo"ant that it is the criminals who feel intend harm to others are taken o$ our streets.

12 Safer streets and a fresh sta! • Ensure that every borough in London has • Merge the British Transpo# Police with a new knife surrender bin. Knife the Metropolitan Police. The British surrender bins are public secure bins Transpo" Police (BTP) is a national special that allow for the safe disposal of knives. police force that polices rail and light-rail Knife surrender bins have removed over systems. By harnessing their combined 50,000 knives from London streets over strength, it will be possible to tackle the recent years. I will renew London’s alarming rise of violent crime and sexual approach to ending knife crime, by assaults on the public transpo" network. reinvesting in knife bins and This merger will aid police response to recommi!ing to pa"nerships with terrorist threats and a!acks that occur community organisations and charities on transpo". As things stand, the like Word 4 Weapons and Binning Knives British Transpo" Police in London is Saves Lives. I will ensure that there is at mostly funded by TfL, but is not least one knife bin in every borough, so answerable to the Mayor. Establishing that knife surrender is as easy as possible a single, uni#ed police force will be!er for those who are looking to do the right focus police activity on public transpo", thing. whilst eliminating duplication and promoting e&ciency. • Ensure LGBTQ+ Londoners are properly protected against hate crime. Tackling the root causes of crime There have been 2,832 incidences of homophobic hate crime over the last 12 Serious youth violence has increased by 30 months. That is an increase of 51 per cent per cent since Sadiq Khan became Mayor. under the current Mayor, and we know Nearly half of all knife crime o$enders in that 81 per cent of victims don’t even London are teenagers. Young people, and repo" these crimes, so the reality is even young black men in pa"icular, worse. Transphobic hate crime has dispropo"ionately bear the brunt of violent increased by 44 per cent over the last crime. This is not just a ma!er of national two years. Homophobic and transphobic shame - it is also a tragic waste of young hate crime is currently only an Londoners’ potential. That’s why I will take aggravating factor to other crimes, it is immediate and decisive action to end the not a crime in itself, like racial and devastation caused by youth violence and religious hate crime. Creating an tackle the root causes of crime. aggravated homophobic and transphobic hate crime o$ence would lead to tougher As Mayor, I will: sentences. I will work with the Government so that not a single • Establish an O$ce for Community Londoner feels unsafe for being Policing. In order to tackle underlying themselves. social problems, improve public satisfaction, ensure community • Create a new Mayoral Drug Testing engagement and provide police Cha#er. Every time someone purchases intelligence from community members. and consumes illegal drugs, they’re not The O&ce for Community Policing, which just commi!ing a crime, they’re funding will be based upon the O&ce of crime. I will ask all businesses with over Collaborative Policing in New York, will 250 employees to carry out regular have regular meetings between police anonymised drug tests on a voluntary o&cers, local citizens, and community basis. To hold companies accountable groups to ensure that community every year, City Hall will publish a league concerns are directly addressed and table showing which companies have the public con#dence in the police improves. highest and lowest rates of drug use. I The rise in violent crime under Sadiq hope to eliminate middle class Khan has dispropo"ionately a$ected drug-use and reduce gang-related the black community - urgent action is violence in London. clearly needed to tackle both the rise in violent crime and increase public con#dence in the police amongst minorities. The work of the new O&ce

Safer streets and a fresh sta! 13 will build on the progress that the Zone in every borough. This will help to widescale roll-out of police body steer young people towards education worn-cameras has had on increasing and training oppo"unities. These will con#dence in the police amongst be modelled on the pioneering OnSide minority communities. Youth Zones, which each a!ract upwards of 300 users a day and have typically • Develop a new £11.3m Second led to a 50 per cent drop in crime and Chances Fund. By giving o$enders a anti-social behaviour in the local area credible oppo"unity to turn their lives post-opening. Youth Zones o$er a around, my new Second Chances Fund combination of spo"ing, educational, will help end the cycle of violence by creative and enterprise activities providing training to those on the path to designed to take the postcode lo!ery violent crime, but who still have a chance out of oppo"unity. My mayoral Youth to choose a di$erent path. The Second Zones would be provided by Chances Fund will be a £11.3m fund, organisations such as OnSide and similar which will be drawn from the youth charities. Mayor’s Adult Education Budget, which totals £306m annually. The fund will be • Fund 4,000 new youth workers across used to suppo" A-level equivalent London. Only 64 per cent of youth quali#cations for ex-prisoners aged organisations in London have received nineteen and above. emergency funding, and 31 per cent will struggle to operate within 6 months if • Create a Second Chance School in each they do not receive funding. I will of London’s Young O&ending Institutes. establish a new Mayor’s Youth Service This will give young o$enders new which will allocate funding to youth oppo"unities and lower reo$ending organisations and charities in each rates. Secure schools are a new school borough with the speci#c purpose of model in Youth O$ending Institutes that hiring new youth workers that address o$er bespoke provision for individual community needs. As I know, youth children with education, health, care services are at their most e$ective when and physical activity at the hea" of their they promote oppo"unity and give paths training o$er. I know from my 20 years’ away from violence. of youth work that employment is the fastest way out of criminality. This will • Create a new Mayoral County Lines help young people turn their backs on a Taskforce. This will bring together the life of crime for good, by funding my own police, schools, youth services and local Second Chance Schools based upon the businesses to stop exploitative gangs secure school model in YOIs. from taking advantage of London’s children. County lines exploitation • Organise gang call-ins. These events are dispropo"ionately a$ects children from where gang members a!end sessions London, and I will create a safeguarding between the police and youth workers to taskforce, with a dedicated senior problem-solve community, criminal, and Metropolitan Police Commander at social justice issues by directing young Scotland Yard, who will lead the o$enders and gang members towards multi-agency team to both stop the work and training oppo"unities - and exploitation of our children. This in turn away from crime. These initiatives will will be directed by a new mayoral help to reduce crime and improve strategy that will be targeted at tackling community relations between the police modern slavery and exploitation in all and the communities they serve, shown forms. by the progress made in reducing gang violence in cities such as Los Angeles Stopping violence against women and girls after the implementation of a gang call-in program. In March 2021, Sadiq Khan said that London isn’t safe for women and girls. And for once • Fund a wave of 32 new Youth Zones. he was right. Since 2016, sexual assaults on I will fund the creation of a new Youth the Tube have soared by 43 per cent.

14 Safer streets and a fresh sta! In 2020, there was a 53 per cent rise in • Fund 500 more police o$cers to referrals to domestic abuse refuges. This tackle Violence Against Women and year we saw women and girls come forward Girls (VAWG). These extra frontline to share deeply upse!ing stories about how o&cers will be used to boost local they protect themselves while walking our Safeguarding Units. I will work with streets. This cannot continue. London will selected representatives to suppo" the never be safe if half of all Londoners are at ongoing training provisions for risk. So as Mayor, I will address this Safeguarding detectives who deal with emergency by allocating 1,000 police the most complex and sensitive cases, o&cers to tackle violence against women including domestic violence. I will and girls. guarantee each of the 12 Borough Command Units will have appropriate As Mayor, I will: resources to tackle violence against women and girls. • Establish a FGM Register. Such a Register will help our public services and • Fund 500 extra transpo# police the justice system combat female o$cers to prevent sexual abuse on the genital mutilation by moving towards a Tube. Sexual assaults repo"ed on the more child-centric approach to ending Tube soared by 43 per cent in the #rst this violent practice. London has the four years of Sadiq Khan’s term in 2016. largest FGM-a$ected population in the YouGov research suggests that tens of UK, and despite a shocking increase in thousands of incidents on buses and the FGM cases, there has only been one Tube go unrepo"ed. This is unacceptable successful conviction. The role of City and it’s clear that Sadiq Khan isn’t doing Hall is to make it easier for the police and enough to protect women and girls on the CPS to catch and prosecute these the transpo" system. I will increase the criminals, and an FGM Register of number of o&cers on the transpo" beat, recorded victims is key to achieving that to combat violence against women and goal. girls on London’s transpo" network.

• Suppo# domestic violence refuges. I will • Ensure the rapid roll-out of CCTV across do this by ensuring every single borough the Tube network. It is vital that women in London can accommodate victims of who travel on the Tube and who work for domestic abuse. I will invest £16m to TfL are safe. Almost one in four sexual provide 130 refuge spaces, prioritising assaults on the Tube network occur on the boroughs where currently there are the Central Line — 292 sexual assaults no refuge provisions. Investing in more were repo"ed in 2017-18 alone. It is also suppo" for victims will drive up shocking that 72 per cent of frontline conviction rates as more women will feel transpo" workers experienced violence con#dent to come forward and repo" in 2019. The Central, Bakerloo and the crime. Piccadilly lines still do not have CCTV. I will immediately roll-out CCTV across • Extending the ‘Rail to Refuge’ scheme these lines. permanently across Transpo# for London. Victims escaping domestic • Install CCTV at every bus stop across abuse need to travel to #nd a refuge London. Research suggests that tens service with availability. ‘Rail to refuge’ of thousands of incidents on London’s helps survivors of domestic abuse, and buses go unrepo"ed, and 90 per cent their children, by providing free train of unwanted sexual behaviour on the travel to their allocated London transpo" network also goes domestic violence refuge. The scheme unrepo"ed. I will install CCTV cameras on has already helped over 800 adults and individual bus stops. Our city has 19,000 children reach a place of safety such stops, so it is crucial that Londoners nationally. The permanent extension of feel safe while waiting for a bus. the scheme to the TfL network is critical for survivors and I will fund its roll-out.

Safer streets and a fresh sta! 15 • Allocate permanent ad space on Tube those living in London use a primary trains for TfL’s ‘Repo# it to stop it’ language other than English. Women’s campaign. Despite TfL’s “repo" it to stop Aid have made it clear that for women it” campaign, over 90 per cent of whose #rst language is not English, it is unwanted sexual behaviour on the harder for them to access domestic transpo" network goes unrepo"ed. I will violence suppo". The current model of allocate permanent ad space to promote multilingual suppo" has to go through the campaign and make it easier to interpreters, which ultimately generates repo" unwanted sexual behaviour. I will distance between the victim and the also ensure Transpo" for London justice system. I will create a fund for provides training to employees on how domestic abuse help-lines to hire to deal with incidents - so the public feel in-house multilingual or bilingual more con#dent and more suppo"ed. domestic abuse specialists that have been trained to the same degree as • Introduce 24/7 uniformed police foot English speakers to ensure specialist patrols in areas where women feel suppo". unsafe. With the extra police o&cers I will be funding, I will increase 24/7 foot patrols on the Tube network, once it has returned to regular pre-Covid service, including the Night Tube and the London Overground. I will ensure that there is a visible police presence in poorly lit, less busy areas, such as parks, residential streets, and night-time economy hubs. YouGov poll found one in three women say they are taking steps on a regular basis to protect themselves from sexual assault, including avoiding ce"ain areas and avoiding being out at ce"ain times. Through increasing foot patrols and a visible police presence I will ensure that women feel more safe and comfo"able walking in our city.

• Lobby the Government for new cyber-%ashing legislation.’ Cyber %ashing is the act by which people are sent unwanted sexual images, often this occurs on public transpo" through bluetooth enabled devices. Over 40 per cent of millennial women have been the recipient of unsolicited sexual images. I will crack down on cyber-%ashing and image-based sexual abuse in London by working with the Government to ensure, whether through amending existing o$ences or creating new o$ences, that our laws are up-to-date to protect women and victims of sexual abuse.

• Fund a new multilingual domestic abuse help-line. This will ensure that all victims of domestic abuse can access suppo", regardless of their background. Roughly 770,000 people living in the UK speak li!le or no English, and 21 per cent of

16 Safer streets and a fresh sta! Safer streets and a fresh sta! 17 18 Section A BIGGER AND BETTER TRANSPORT NETWORK

Fixing and Funding TfL Ge!ing London Moving Promoting Active Travel for Londoners

Section 19 A BIGGER AND BETTER TRANSPORT NETWORK

“ I will get London moving. As Mayor I will "x Transpo# for London’s "nances, to protect services and deliver a bigger, be!er, greener network.”

London’s transpo# network is the fuel for our city. It’s how we get to work. It’s how businesses get around. It’s how we visit friends and family. But over the last "ve years, our transpo# network has struggled to cope. And that’s because Sadiq Khan has mismanaged TfL’s "nances, let roads and bridges fall into disrepair, and failed to deliver the green projects our city needs. So as Mayor, I will work with Londoners to build a transpo# network "t for a global city.

TfL is one of our most impo"ant Londoners, like the 4.5 million of us who institutions. It runs our trains, tubes and have seen our fares increase. buses. It looks after our roads and bridges. But right now, it’s bankrupt. Sadiq Fix and Fund TfL Khan promised to ‘cut the %ab’ at TfL, but instead he increased waste. He lavished £151 TfL sta$ are some of the best transpo" million on exit payments for executives. He workers in the world. They are the ones who increased the number of TfL employees keep London moving. So they deserve a earning over £100,000 to 557, compared to Mayor who suppo"s them, provides a safe 458 when Boris Johnson left o&ce - a £58 workplace, and delivers projects on time and million increase. He promised zero days of on budget. But on all counts, Sadiq Khan strikes, but there were 30 strikes on TfL, has failed. As Mayor, I will #x and fund TfL by totalling 4,430 lost shifts. He assured reducing TfL waste and establishing my new Londoners that they ‘won’t pay a penny London Infrastructure Bank - securing more more in 2020’ for their travel, then investment for our transpo" system to proceeded to break that promise. And the improve journey times and accelerate burden of this mismanagement rests on London’s economic recovery.

20 A bigger and be"er transpo! network A BIGGER AND BETTER TRANSPORT NETWORK As Mayor, I will: • Ensure the full and rapid opening of Crossrail. As Chair of the transpo" body, • Fix TfL’s broken "nances to safeguard it is Sadiq Khan’s responsibility to manage transpo# services. In March 2020, before TfL e$ectively. When the current Mayor Covid-19 had fully impacted its assumed o&ce, Crossrail was on time #nances, TfL debt stood at a record £12 and on budget. Now it is three years late billion. Borrowing had increased by 30 and has cost Londoners an extra £5.2bn. per cent between March 2016 to March Crossrail is currently scheduled to 2020. Sadiq Khan’s continual pa"ially open this winter, but it will not be mismanagement of TfL’s #nances has led fully opened until summer 2022. As to a decline in the quality of Mayor, I will immediately #x and fund TfL transpo" services and an increase in to make sure that the opening of this transpo" taxes. I will #x TfL’s #nances by vital transpo" service is brought forward. cu!ing waste, making tough decisions on executive pay and approving intelligent • Introduce a new Transpo# Workers investments. Covenant to protect TfL Sta&. Shockingly, 72 per cent of frontline • Establish a new London Infrastructure transpo" workers experienced violence Bank. With a rapidly growing population, while on duty, with 90 per cent of those London needs to invest heavily into its workers repo"ing exposure to violence infrastructure. Projects like the on multiple occasions. Fu"hermore, Hammersmith Bridge repair and Crossrail throughout the Covid pandemic, bus 2 need to be #nanced. A London drivers have been almost twice as likely Infrastructure Bank, owned by the to die from the virus than NHS taxpayer, would a!ract private sector workers. As a result of this #nance into large scale, costly emotional toll, our heroic TfL sta$ have infrastructure projects. This is a tried had to take 29 per cent more days o$ and tested formula, proven successful due to mental health problems since by models like Germany’s KfW, and is a 2017. This is unacceptable. Our TfL sta$ model that will be replicated nationally by deserve the very best. So as the National Infrastructure Bank. Mayor, I pledge to establish a new Transpo" Workers Covenant. Through • Use greater levels of corporate this I will fast track access to mental sponsorship on TfL services to subsidise healthcare suppo", develop relationships fares. TfL has been repeatedly bailed out with health and wellbeing charities, and by the national Government. One of the ensure that transpo" workers always reasons behind this is the drop in fares receive the right amount of protective revenue brought about by the Covid equipment. pandemic, another cause is Sadiq Khan’s mismanagement of TfL and the £9.56bn • Restore much-needed bus routes in wo"h of waste he has accrued over his Outer London. Sadiq Khan has not only term. Throughout this tough time for TfL, increased motoring taxes on Londoners, he has failed to come up with he has also stripped back much-needed innovative and sma" solutions to raise local bus routes in Outer London. In order money. So I will work with corporate to thrive, the neighbourhoods of our city pa"ners to increase TfL sponsorship need to be adequately interconnected. income. Dubai Metro, which is one-#fth Many families in the Capital rely heavily the size of London’s Tube, has sponsored on our local bus system to see friends or its metro network and has generated get to work, this is pa"icularly true for £419m in corporate sponsorship. disabled and older Londoners. I will I estimate that £500m could be brought ensure that by the end of my #rst term in as pa" of a long term sponsorship deal I will have reinstated all bus routes, such in London, which would protect free as the 384 bus, that have been cut or travel for those over 60 and under 18 withdrawn by Sadiq Khan. years of age.

A bigger and be"er transpo! network 21 • Fully open the Tube and stand up for TfL Bakerloo Line extension to Lewisham, and sta&. Sadiq Khan has made the the DLR to Thamesmead. I will also decision to close the Waterloo and City connect Su!on town centre with the Line, which is vital for the City of No"hern Line Tube at Colliers Wood by London and our economy, for an funding a new tram link. inde#nite period. Not only this, the current Mayor has made the decision to • Lobby the Government to assume fully close Night Tube service, which is so control of all suburban rail in London. key to the reopening of the night-time Our city’s population growth is expected economy. As Mayor, I will prioritise the to generate six million additional trips in economic recovery from the pandemic the city every day by 2041. Because of and get London moving again by this, London needs a reliable, e&cient restoring a full service to the London transpo" network to be able to suppo" Underground. this growth. My City Hall will work with the Government to hand-over control of • Ensure that all pa#s of London bene"t all suburban rail lines to Transpo" for from new transpo# investment. Sadiq London. This will integrate all rail lines Khan’s poor #nancial management of TfL across Greater London into a single, has meant that impo"ant improvements centralised network. Building on the to the transpo" network have been success of TfL Rail and the London disrupted. In total, 21 out of 26 of TfL’s Overground, this will lead to more infrastructure projects have been e&cient rail services throughout the delayed, paused, or cancelled under the Capital. current Mayor. I will #x TfL’s #nances to make sure that transpo" network • Reform TfL’s system of ‘gold-plated’ improvements are given the green light. pensions. Currently, over 26,000 TfL I will also use the new London sta$ are on unreformed pensions, which Infrastructure Bank to inject transpo" means TfL contributes 31 per cent to investment throughout London, pensions while the employee contributes including projects to extend the DLR 5 per cent. In comparison, the pension from Canary Wha' to Euston, the schemes for NHS workers, police o&cers

22 A bigger and be"er transpo! network and other key workers are signi#cantly public transpo" network more than less generous. Sadiq Khan’s refusal to others. This is why I will #x TfL’s #nances bring TfL’s pension system in line with and explore new commercial the rest of the public sector has cost oppo"unities to ensure that the 60+ £828 million in overpayments over the travelcard, the Freedom Pass and all last four years. In a time of tight budgets, Zip-Cards continue to be o$ered as this is an unsustainable model. Even an travel concessions. independent repo" commissioned by TfL described the pension scheme • Increase residential electric vehicle ‘expensive, unreformed and outdated’. charging points across London. As Mayor, I will reduce the TfL employer One-third of Britons intend to invest in an pension contributions by moving all new electric or hybrid car in the near future. employees on to the Local Government Neve"heless, 40 per cent of Pension Scheme that local government Londoners say the lack of charging o&cers in London enjoy. points for electric cars has, or will stop them from buying a new electric vehicle. • Rollout a new generation of driverless If things don’t change, the lack of trains across the Tube network. charging points will leave Londoners Purchasing new driverless trains would breathing poorer air. Over 80 per cent of reduce costs for TfL and reduce London’s cars are parked on the streets, overcrowding by adding to total Tube so owners of electric cars could quickly capacity. The International Association of and easily charge their cars at any lamp Public Transpo" has stated that post charging point - as is currently driverless trains are safer, faster and being done by many boroughs across the more e&cient when compared to city. I will expand the residential charging human-controlled transpo". The bene#ts network #ve-fold and ensure that 48,000 of fully-automation has enabled more new chargers are delivered in pa"nership trains per hour as well as reducing the with the boroughs. time and money required to maintain the network. The Docklands Light Railway • Expand rapid charging points for black (DLR) has operated driverless trains well cabs and electric commercial vehicles. since its opening in 1987. I will ensure that While most electric charging stations the next round of rolling-stock purchases take eight hours to charge a vehicle, for the London Underground includes a rapid charging points can power up to requirement for driverless-capable Tube 80 per cent of the car’s ba!ery in just trains. 30 minutes. TfL has only delivered 500 rapid charge points, which is not nearly Ge!ing London Moving enough. Already, 4,000 hybrid-electric black cabs are having to compete for the As we emerge from the pandemic, we have same 74 taxi-only rapid charging stations a chance to fundamentally rethink what we in the whole of London. In fact, there are want our streets, environment, and so few rapid charging stations that economy to look like. As a global leader, hybrid-electric owners are having to fuel London should be a model for what a green their cars with petrol. This is and e&cient transpo" network can be. My unacceptable. My City Hall will fund the plans will ensure we have world-class delivery of TfL’s target of 4,000 rapid transpo", clean streets, and clean air. changing points by #xing TfL’s broken #nances and rapidly increasing As Mayor, I will: investment in EV infrastructure.

• Protect free travel for those over-60s • Enable night-time deliveries of heavy and under-18s. As we emerge from the good vehicles to reduce daytime Covid-19 crisis, it is more impo"ant than congestion. Lorries and heavy good ever that we have a transpo" system vehicles (HGVs) are vital for our economy, that allows Londoners to move around adding £79bn to London’s economy. But freely. This is especially true for older and because of a 1985 law, the movement of younger Londoners, who rely on the heavy goods vehicles in London is

A bigger and be"er transpo! network 23 restricted after 9pm. With so many more to accelerate the refurbishment of HGVs on the road, freight vehicles now Hammersmith Bridge. account for one-#fth of Greater London tra&c and one-third of central London • Suspend LTNs in places where they are tra&c. In 2019, London was ranked the opposed by the local community. Since eighth-most congested city in the world, the #rst lockdown, Low Tra&c with each driver losing 149 hours to Neighbourhoods (LTNs) have been tra&c during peak hours. The tra&c toll is installed across London. LTNs use especially heavy on mayoral-run TfL Red planters, bollards or road signs to stop Routes, which hold one-third of all tra&c. through-tra&c on ce"ain roads. One in As Mayor, I will amend the rules of the 20 Londoners now live in a LTN, but most road for TfL Red Routes to allow HGVs to of these were rapidly operate at night and work with implemented without much, if any, public Government and local councils to consultation. While LTNs can promote incentivise them to lift these restrictions active travel, which I wholehea"edly on all roads within London. Lifting the suppo", in the wrong places they can current cu'ew would reduce congestion, increase congestion, disrupt travel for improve air quality and protect lives by vulnerable residents and impede local limiting the chance of cyclist and businesses. In my #rst 100 days as Mayor, pedestrian injury. I will hold public consultations with every community located near a TfL-funded • Use the Thames more as a means to LTN and remove the tra&c measures if a transpo# waste and reduce road majority of residents favour the removal. congestion. London produces about 22 million tonnes of waste per year, which • Exempt motorcycles from the Ultra Low is enough to #ll the largest skyscraper Emission Zone. Motorcycles and other at Canary Wha' every eight days. I will powered two-wheelers represent only amend the Mayor’s Transpo" Strategy two per cent of total motorised tra&c in and work with the Po" of London London. Motorcyclists reduce congestion Authority to ensure that the transpo" of and the number of cars on the road. A waste on the Thames is prioritised, taking study in Belgium found that if 10 per cent pressure o$ London roads and cleaning of drivers switched to motorbikes, time up London’s air quality. As an example, losses for all vehicles would fall by 40 per 50 barges can transpo" 1 million tonnes cent and emissions would be cut by six of residual waste, which is the same as per cent. A 25 per cent shift would taking 100,000 truck movements o$ eliminate congestion completely. The London’s congested streets every year. problem under the current system is that motorcycles are treated equally to more • Reopen Hammersmith Bridge and polluting diesel and petrol cars. This is provide a temporary road bridge. Under unfair and it undermines the model shift the current mayor, Hammersmith Bridge from more polluting to less polluting is not expected to be repaired for at least vehicles that we need. As a result, I will another six years. The Taskforce exempt powered two-wheelers from the overseeing the project has announced ULEZ. that a temporary ferry service is to be operated along that stretch of the • Exempt disabled Blue Badge holders river, but the ferry will not open until the from ULEZ. Blue Badge permits, which end of summer and commuters will be are awarded by local councils, allow charged to travel. The communities who disabled drivers to park for free in have been struggling for two years designated parking bays. This is without a functional bridge deserve impo"ant because over one in four leadership from their leaders. My City Hall disabled people live in pove"y, and will immediately begin work on a allowing disabled drivers to park in temporary road bridge and ensure that designated parking bays for free is the incoming ferry is free of charge for positive for disabled access and because local residents. I will also use funding it helps to tackle inequality. Because of from the new London Infrastructure Bank this, Blue Badge holders have always

24 A bigger and be"er transpo! network been exempt to the Congestion Charge. the new bicycles in Outer London will be Unfo"unately, Sadiq Khan has decided ebikes. that disabled drivers with a Blue Badge should pay a daily £12.50 charge to • Reduce bicycle thefts across London by enter London, which means over 100,000 funding a wave of new cycle disabled drivers in London are now hangers. The number of bikes stolen in paying higher road charges. This is unfair London has trebled since the sta" of the and I will exempt all Blue Badge holders pandemic. A bicycle is stolen every six from the central ULEZ. It is not right that minutes across the UK, and even more disabled people, who need additional frequently in London. Traditional bicycle levels of access, have to pay a driving racks with a personal lock are highly penalty on top of their high living costs. susceptible to theft and so a more secure alternative is required. Cycle Promoting active travel for all Londoners hangers provide a secure form of bicycle storage that is key to increasing bicycle The global pandemic has put health front usage in London. I will work with local and centre in people’s minds. And there is so councils to ensure that there are more much City Hall can do to suppo" health as cycle hangars in all new developments. I we emerge from the pandemic. Active travel, will do this by mandating this like cycling and walking, not only promotes requirement in the London Plan. By good health - it also cleans up our air and simply replacing one parking spot with cuts carbon emissions. Sadly, Sadiq Khan one parking hangar, developments could hasn’t done enough to encourage it. While cater for six times the number of cycling should be open to all, people from residents per spot. minority communities account for just 15 per cent of the city’s cycling trips. And less than • Ensure that all children have access to 14 per cent of London’s cyclists are from low cycle-safety training across London. income households. So as Mayor, I will work Over 60 per cent of adults considered to create a healthier city - investing in active it too dangerous to cycle on London’s travel measures, including cycleways, for roads. In 2019, 125 people were killed and every resident in every community. 3,780 people were seriously injured on London’s roads. Cycle training can help As Mayor, I will: improve safety by increasing rider road knowledge and cycling pro#ciency. As • Promote active travel with hire-scheme Mayor, I will commit to broadening the electric-bikes. The previous Mayor, Boris patchwork network of cycling centres Johnson, rolled out what is now called the to ensure that every borough has good Santander Cycle-Hire Scheme. This access to bicycle training. These training widened access to cycling all across centres will be hosted in public buildings London and is now used by 820,000 such as schools, youth zones, or spo"s Londoners every year. But as it stands, centres. many Outer London boroughs do not enjoy the same access to the cycle-hire • Expand and invest in walking routes scheme. Because of the signi#cant across London. Sma"CitiesWorld has distance to the centre of London from suggested that London should be many of these locations, it is prepared for a #ve-fold increase in impractical to simply keep widening walkers as pandemic restrictions ease. It the existing scheme. But electric bikes is therefore impo"ant that London (ebikes) can provide a solution to this. widens the oppo"unities for enjoyable Commuting distance to the centre of walks. I will do this by doubling the routes London from these boroughs ranges provided by the Walk London Network from 9.5km to 11.8km, which is a more and ensure that these high quality practical commute for someone on an walking routes are made more a!ractive. electric bike, which travels at a speed of It is impo"ant to make London pathways 20mph. In order to widen access to the enjoyable for individuals to use, and cycle network, as the current cycle-hire ensuring they are protected and not lost scheme expands I will ensure that all to unnecessary development.

A bigger and be"er transpo! network 25 26 Section AFFORDABLE HOMES AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES

Building the homes Londoners need Creating a more beautiful London Suppo"ing London’s renters Helping to house and suppo" London’s homeless population Strengthening and empowering London’s communities

Section 27 AFFORDABLES HOMES AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES

“I will get London building. As Mayor I will build more a&ordable homes in our city.”

London is in the middle of a housing crisis. While the rich buy luxury homes, ordinary Londoners are being priced out of the city. The people who keep London going - the teachers, the hospitality sta&, the cleaners - can’t a&ord to live here. That’s why we need a fresh sta#. As Mayor, I’ll work with developers to build homes that Londoners can actually a&ord. Helping every resident in every community to get on the housing ladder.

This issue is personal to me. I was born and than wages. Millennials can no longer a$ord raised in a council house. I was homeless for to live in London. Talented young people are pa" of my twenties and struggled to buy a leaving our city. home for a lot longer. So I know how impo"ant a$ordable housing really is. And I If the current housing crisis continues, we know that Sadiq Khan is failing to build the will lose an entire generation of talent - and homes that young Londoners need. all because a$ordability is at its lowest level since the great recession. So as Mayor, I will Despite being given £4.82bn from the break ground on unused land across London government, Sadiq Khan only sta"ed half of to build homes that residents can actually the homes he promised to deliver. And he a$ord. We don’t have a moment to lose. completed just 16,700 - which is a fraction of the homes he sta"ed. Given the fact that • Build 100,000 homes for £100,000 he’s had #ve years to build homes, this is each. It is more impo"ant than ever to just not good enough. Londoners deserve a ensure that there are a$ordable fresh sta". housing options for #rst-time buyers. Under this scheme, for these 100,000 Building the homes Londoners need new shared ownership homes, prospective homeowners would pay a House prices have grown 11 per cent faster deposit of just £5,000. This is

28 A#ordable homes and stronger communities AFFORDABLES HOMES AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES especially impo"ant in London, as the This will guarantee that the teachers, average #rst time buyer has to pay a nurses, police o&cers, NHS and care deposit of £109,000. Based on the workers and other public sector heroes, average London salary, this would take who have been on the frontline against Londoners approximately 20 years to Covid, are prioritised for housing. save. I will use the £4bn of a$ordable housing funding at my disposal to ensure Creating a more beautiful London we house our young Londoners. One of the things that makes London the • Create Housing for London (HfL) to take greatest city on ea"h is our green control of London’s building process. spaces. But research shows that only half of Sadiq Khan has sta"ed less than half of all Londoners feel that they have access to the a$ordable houses he promised to the most beautiful places and buildings in build and has no new ideas on how to their communities. In fact, those who kicksta" housebuilding in London. I will repo"ed having access to beautiful scenery establish a new body, called Housing for were primarily those who earn more than London, which will be a City Hall- £45,000 a year - which is £13,000 more than controlled developer. The new HfL will the average household. London’s beauty be a subsidiary body of the GLA that should be open and accessible to all, no is directly answerable to the Mayor. By ma!er what people earn. So as Mayor, I will taking more control of the housebuilding preserve our most beautiful buildings and process in London, and by using the full natural environment - while widening access planning powers at my disposal in to beauty. pa"nership with boroughs, I will ensure that the city gets the housing it needs. As Mayor, I will:

• Instigate a building boom on • Amend the London Plan to ensure brown"eld sites. We must preserve our beauty is a central pa# of the planning green belt and maintain the character process. London’s planning laws should of Outer London. I will amend planning deliver high quality design, create regulations in London to ensure that it is beautiful places, and provide a high much easier to build on brown#eld land. standard of amenity for all existing and Analysis of the Brown#eld Land Register future residents. So I will ensure that all has shown that there is over 2,600 new developments are visually a!ractive hectares of brown#eld land within and enhance the beauty of the London, enough to accommodate over surrounding area. This will prevent the 287,000 homes. My City Hall will construction of inappropriate high rise maximise e&cient brown#eld land by buildings and buildings that do not #t in amending the London Plan to ensure it with the local character. This will build on is much easier and simpler to build on the Government’s ‘Building Be!er, brown#eld land. Moreover, my City Hall Building Beautiful’ planning reforms. If will work with developers to build we are able to build beautiful homes that desirable homes at all sizes, with an people want to live in and beautify the emphasis on a$ordable homes for #rst- local area, then this will reduce time buyers. opposition to new developments and new homes, allowing us to build the • Reform the a&ordable housing target to homes that Londoners need. provide homes for our Covid heroes. I will maintain the accepted 35 per cent • Place a ban on inappropriate a$ordable housing target, re%ecting tower blocks in Outer London. Growth in what is permi!ed under the current high-rise, tall buildings in Outer regime following a viability assessment, London is currently outpacing the growth to ensure that we build enough of such buildings in Inner London. We a$ordable housing. I will also ensure that must preserve our green belt and half of the a$ordable homes provided maintain the character of Outer London. through HfL and GLA funds will be As Mayor, I will stop inappropriate designated for London’s key workers. high-rise developments by creating a

A#ordable homes and stronger communities 29 moratorium on new tower blocks. I will Suppo#ing London’s renters work with local planning authorities to make sure that new buildings are All Londoners deserve the right to safe and in keeping with the character of local a$ordable housing. But according to the neighbourhoods and incorporate good O&ce for National Statistics, 27 per cent of design practices. all private rented homes are categorised as ‘non-decent.’ Shockingly, 40 per cent of UK • Commit to a Green Compact with students who rent privately live with damp housing developers. London’s natural and mould on their walls. The same survey environment is perhaps our greatest found that over a third of students said poor resource and it must be adequately living conditions made them feel anxious protected. As Mayor, I will back the or depressed. Young people cannot a$ord ‘National Park City’ campaign and, under to stay in London, and those that can live in my new Green Compact, incorporate subpar conditions. biodiversity measures into plans for major housing developments. Some of the Sadiq Khan has promised to bring in rent improvements that will be rolled include: controls if he secures a second term - even bird-friendly glazing that uses though he admi!ed that he doesn’t have the biomimicry; swift bricks in developments; power to do so. Whether or not he has the and new estuarine habitats in the Thames power, rent controls would reduce the that incorporate #sh-friendly number of homes for rent and reduce the construction protocols. As we emerge quality of rented %ats. In fact, Sadiq Khan’s from the pandemic, it is vital that we own advisers admi!ed they have no clue make London a more liveable city - whether rent controls would be e$ective. greater biodiversity is key to that. So it will be just another broken promise to Londoners. • Establish Areas of Outstanding Urban Beauty to protect London’s heritage. I We don’t need fresh problems caused by will work with the boroughs to identify bad policy - we need a fresh sta". buildings, areas, and spaces with local aesthetic impo"ance that will be labelled As Mayor, I will: as ‘Areas of Outstanding Urban Beauty’. I will strengthen planning protections • Establish a Rogue Landlords Unit to help for these areas in an amended London boroughs police bad landlords. For too Plan. I will also release funds to improve long, too many tenants have been land and buildings in these zones. Such taken advantage of by a small minority of measures will ensure that areas of urban landlords. In 2019, 84 per cent of private beauty, like Warren Farm in Ealing, are tenants in the UK said they were satis#ed protected from future development. with their accommodation. However, we need to protect those who are living in • Appoint a “Chief Placemaker” to create poor conditions due to neglectful more vibrant and liveable communities. landlords. The pandemic has made this Neglected and less a!ractive areas have situation worse as some landlords have higher levels of anti-social behaviour, taken advantage of the pandemic. There crime and more li!er. I’ve seen this were more than 1,400 complaints dynamic play out again and again during between March and December last year my time as a youth worker. Well-o$ to the GLA’s online tool to repo" a communities are often surrounded by landlord or agent. O&cers in this new beauty, while London’s neediest unit will work closely with local councils neighborhoods have less access. This to help gather evidence for prosecutions is unacceptable. As Mayor, I will appoint against rogue landlords, assist councils a Chief Placemaker to ensure that new to identify the worst perpetrators who major developments in London have breached standards and help to incorporate good design and signi#cant ensure that bad landlords are named and amounts of natural beauty into every new shamed. My new unit will provide neighbourhood - so that all additional resources to local councils to communities can live in more liveable make sure those in the private rented neighbourhoods. sector are be!er protected.

30 A#ordable homes and stronger communities • Crack down on empty ‘ghost homes’ from their fuel bills per year. Whilst the that are left empty. ‘Ghost homes’ are current Mayor launched a new ‘Be!er those prope"ies that have been left Boilers’ scheme aimed at cu!ing fuel vacant for a long period of time. It cannot pove"y during this term, this was not be right, when there is such a sho"age designed to tackle air pollution. This of good prope"ies in London, that this is Boiler Cashback scheme will allow allowed to continue. There are greater NO2 savings to be achieved and currently over 22,000 such ‘ghost homes’ more households to bene#t from lower in London, with a combined value of bills. The scheme will target areas within £12.2bn. Councils can issue Empty pollution hotspots to help tackle high Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs) NO2 levels in London. to help #ll these prope"ies and I will work with councils to help issue more EDMOs. Helping to house and suppo# London’s I will also ask for the devolution of the homeless population annual tax on enveloped dwellings, with the intention of using the tax to Even before the pandemic, homelessness incentivise company landlords to bring as was increasing. There were 2,680 people many homes to market as possible. sleeping rough in London for the #rst time during March 2020 – a 77 per cent increase • Ensure access to tenancy deposit in new rough sleepers compared to the schemes are widespread throughout same period last year. As Mayor, I will make London. More than a third of private sure City Hall uses its powers and resources renters polled said they thought the to house our homeless and rough-sleeping pandemic will have a ‘large impact’ on population. I will also make sure that those their personal #nances. Analysis by the with complex needs are given the care they Bank of England found that 28 per cent need. of households have seen incomes fall during the pandemic, rising to 66 per As Mayor, I will: cent among the self-employed. As we emerge from the pandemic, I will work • Mandate that a po#ion of GLA housing with the private sector to make sure funds go towards homes for the Londoners are able to move home and homeless. In 2016, the Centre for Social rent more easily. I will do this by Justice found 46 per cent of homeless working with London’s largest employers accommodation projects repo"ed to ensure that tenancy deposit schemes, refusing a client access to services which are deposits given to employees because their needs were too complex. for rental deposits which they can pay Complex needs are when an individual back over a designated period of time, su$ers from two or more issues which become standard practice. I will use the intersect and a$ect their physical or convening power of City Hall to bring mental health and wellbeing. To cater to London’s largest companies to the table this demand, under a ‘housing-#rst and work with them to ensure the approach’ I will direct a po"ion of widespread rollout of deposit loans. Housing for London funds towards Too few companies currently o$er such supplying accommodation that is schemes. speci#cally designed for those homeless people with complex needs. • Renew the London Boiler Cashback This will help us to end homelessness and Scheme to remove most the polluting rough sleeping for good boilers. Gas boilers contribute . approximately 12 per cent of London’s • Implement Mobile Mental Health NOx (nitrous oxide) emissions. New Intervention Teams. Sadly, 560 rough A-rated boilers are over 90 per cent sleepers died on London’s streets from e&cient and can save over 1.2kg NOx 2016 to 2019, and 80 per cent of those per year compared to older boilers, as who died in London had mental health well as making signi#cant carbon dioxide needs. Mental illness can make moving savings. Moving to a more e&cient boiler o$ the streets and into accommodation can also save households around £340 more challenging for many rough

A#ordable homes and stronger communities 31 sleepers. I will create Mobile Mental homes, but development happens best and Health Intervention Teams to provide at its fastest when local communities are mental health suppo" for rough involved in the decision-making process. So I sleepers in a more accessible way, will make sure that new homes are only rather than through a standard permi!ed where local communities lend static clinic. Recent data shows that of their suppo" and neighbourhoods are the people seen sleeping rough, 42 per empowered to direct local regeneration. cent and 41 per cent had alcohol misuse and drug misuse suppo" needs respectively. These new Intervention As Mayor, I will: Teams will travel directly to the areas of London where homeless people reside to • Empower communities with the new provide mental health services. This will Right to Regenerate. The latest #gures ensure that rough sleepers with serious show there were over 25,000 vacant mental health issues do not slip through council owned homes and over 100,000 the net. empty council-owned garages, across the United Kingdom. Under plans • Permanently establish an emergency announced by the national government, housing safety net. Emergency housing local communities will now be able to provides a safety net to Londoners, such conve" public vacant plots into new as rough sleepers, victims of domestic homes or community spaces. I will work violence, and victims of crime. Since last with all the boroughs to audit all unused March, emergency hotel housing has or underused buildings and spaces. All suppo"ed almost 1,700 Londoners. My public land not in use or development, City Hall will bolster this valuable safety including GLA land, will be o$ered to net. Even before Covid, London hotels communities by default, unless there is a had been steadily operating at around 83 compelling reason the owner should hold per cent annual capacity going back to onto it. 2008. That surplus capacity is equivalent to over 15,000 unused hotel rooms every • Entrench a full Right of Return for year. I will pa"ner with hotels across residents living in regeneration areas. London to maximise use of our hotel Some regeneration projects do not carry spaces by #lling out empty beds with the full suppo" of residents because those who need them most. Any hotels they do not o$er a full right of return, a wishing to pa"icipate in this scheme can right which allows residents to go back to pledge a set number of rooms for a their homes after a building after ce"ain duration with City Hall, and my refurbishment. A good example of this o&ce will then coordinate available was the Broadwater Farm regeneration housing with local boroughs and councils scheme that was pa" of the Haringey to immediately protect those in Development Vehicle. The Right of emergency situations. Return for this project did not include housing association tenants and Strengthening and empowering London’s leaseholders, thereby causing communities considerable anxiety and stress for many residents. I will enact a right to return for Despite the fact that many Londoners are tenants, including leaseholders, whose forced to live in poor quality housing, new estates have been regenerated, so they homes just aren’t being built fast enough. will be able to return to their homes once Since 1949, around 6,500 tower blocks a redevelopment project is have been built in the UK, many of them in complete. I will ensure that Right to the 1960s and 1970s, with around 2,700 in Return will be mandatory for GLA funded Greater London alone. Either now or very developments and monies from City Hall soon, these tower blocks will need to developers and housing associations refurbishment, but regeneration schemes will be contingent upon them ensuring often do not work as they should. that Right to Return is adhered to.

We need new developments and new

32 A#ordable homes and stronger communities • Devolve power to neighbourhoods by creating more Community Land Trusts. As we build back be!er and regenerate pa"s of London, my City Hall will make sure that every community is given a say over redevelopment. All developers in receipt of GLA housing funds will be given a choice either to establish a new community land trust on a pa" of the site in question, so that residents have greater levels of ownership once the site is complete, or to conduct a resident ballot on development plans. Either way, I will make sure that residents have a greater say over how regeneration occurs in their communities.

A#ordable homes and stronger communities 33 34 Section LAUNCHING LONDON’S RECOVERY

Cu!ing the cost of living for all Londoners Creating good jobs to boost London’s recovery Suppo"ing London’s businesses on the road to recovery

Section 35 LAUNCHING LONDON’S RECOVERY

“I will get London back to work. As Mayor I will get Londoners back to work and cut the cost of living as we recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.”

While we don’t yet know what the long-term e&ects of the pandemic will look like, we do know how deeply it has hu# our economy. Businesses have been forced to close. Workers have been laid o&. And too many Londoners are struggling to make ends meet. As we emerge from the pandemic, we need an economic recovery - and we need it now. I know from experience that work is the best route out of pove#y, it is also essential to have a strong economy so that we can a&ord public services like our NHS. So from day one as Mayor, I will sta# building an economy that provides oppo#unity to every resident in every community.

Sadiq Khan promised to be ‘the most half of London and hit the poorest families pro-business Mayor ever.’ But when he the hardest. He is introducing an Outer entered City Hall, he turned his back on London Tax, a £5.50 charge for drivers our businesses and high streets. Instead of coming into Greater London, which will investing in London’s small businesses, Sadiq damage small businesses even more. And he Khan ignored them. Now our city is in the has increased his share of council tax by 31 bo!om #ve UK cities for high street footfall per cent, costing the average household £87 and investment. If we don’t take action, we extra every year. risk doing permanent damage to the small businesses that make London special. Families and businesses can’t a$ord another three years of higher taxes and more And while businesses struggle with the charges. We need a fresh sta" - and I’ve got e$ects of the pandemic, families are a plan to deliver it. struggling with the results of Sadiq Khan’s tax rises. Instead of lowering the cost of living, Sadiq Khan raised the Congestion Charge to £15 a day, seven days a week. He is extending ULEZ, which will cover almost

36 Launching London’s recovery Cu!ing the cost of living for all Londoners As Mayor, I will

I was born in a council house and raised by • Save every London household £307 a single mum. I was homeless for pa" of my in Council Tax over my term. Over the twenties and struggled to make ends meet course of his term, Sadiq Khan will have for a lot longer. So I understand that just a raised his share of Council Tax by over 31 hundred pounds in taxes and charges each per cent. That’s including a 10 per cent year can set working families back. And we hike this year alone, which is the highest all know that extra charges and higher Council Tax hike in the country. This is not taxes will prevent an economic recovery and an abstract #gure — that’s hundreds of prolong the damage of coronavirus. So as pounds out of the pockets of working Mayor, I will cut the cost of living on day one. Londoners. I pledge to #x London’s #nances, and deliver value for money,

Sadiq Khan has hiked the Sadiq Khan is raising council Congestion Charge to £15 a tax by 10%. Leaving every £15 day, seven days a week. 10% single household in London with higher bills.

Sadiq Khan will expand his family car tax to the No!h Sadiq Khan has plans to and South Circular. Hi"ing introduce an Outer London £12.50 even more commuters and Tax — £5.50 charge for drivers businesses with higher costs £5.50 entering Greater London. for driving.

Launching London’s recovery 37 without pu!ing the burden of bureau- cracy and mismanagement onto London residents. I’ll sta" by reversing Sadiq Khan’s 10 per cent Council Tax hike, so that every household will save £307 across my term in o&ce. I have forecast that Sadiq Khan will increase Council Tax by the same amount in his next term as he has over his current term, if he wins. Sadiq Khan has increased Council Tax by 31 per cent over his current term. If I win I will cut Council Tax by 9.5 per cent over my mayoralty. Mayor of London is planning to impose • Scrap Sadiq Khan’s expanded ULEZ a boundary charge around the whole of charge. Sadiq Khan plans to extend the Greater London. This will penalise drivers Ultra-Low Emission Zone to the No"h for travelling into London for work, and South Circulars. This new expanded tourism or business. The e$ect of this will zone will cover almost half of London. be to cut o$ families from one another Currently, ce"ain vehicles that enter the and reduce the amount of people who centre of London are charged £12.50 travel to town centres and high streets every day to do so. The centre of London in London. This new tax will damage the is the key pollution hotspot in the Capital economy of Outer London, so I will scrap so it is logical to have a ULEZ in Central all plans to introduce this punitive charge. London. However, expanding ULEZ would be a blunt instrument when there are far • Campaign to ensure 100 per cent be!er ways of improving air quality. I will devolution of Business Rates to London. cancel the rollout of the ULEZ London’s unique position at the hea" of expansion on day one of my mayoralty, the UK economy and the very di$erent so that hard-working Londoners are not demand drivers for public services means forced to pay higher charges to drive to there is a strong case for delivering 100 work or visit their families, and instead per cent business rates retention pursue other means of improving air permanently in the Capital. The quality without making Londoners pay. Government has recognised London’s unique situation by selecting London as a • Reverse Sadiq Khan’s Congestion pilot area to trial the business rate Charge hike. At a time when our retention and I will request that the economy is recovering from a recession, Government makes this permanent. it is vital that City Hall does all it can to Nonetheless, I recognise that Business suppo" our businesses and families. Rates are very burdensome for many Instead, Sadiq Khan has made the choice businesses. This is especially pe"inent, to increase the Congestion Charge to with the retail sector already reeling. The £15 and extend the hours to weekends Government has shown they recognise and evenings. This punitive tax is a the negative impact Business Rates can result of Sadiq Khan’s mismanagement have and a fundamental review of of Transpo" for London - as he has Business Rates will be published in the admi!ed. The current Mayor generated Autumn. I will lobby the Government to £9.56bn wo"h of waste going into the reform Business Rates to ensure pandemic and TfL is now facing London’s highstreets can once again #nancial ruin. As the Chair of TfL, Sadiq thrive. Khan should be cu!ing waste. Instead he is hiking taxes for Londoners at a time • Ensure City Hall’s "nances are be!er when they need it least. On day one I will managed on behalf of the taxpayer. The reverse this Congestion Charge hike. Mayor possesses signi#cant #nancial resources and has a budget of over • Stop the introduction of Sadiq Khan’s £19bn. But under Sadiq Khan, spending £5.50 Outer London Tax. The current has spiralled out of control. I aim to

38 Launching London’s recovery introduce a package of measures, towards the creation of 720,000 jobs. including a new independent Budget This will help the construction sector to O&ce for London. This will be answerable get back on its feet and it will help to to the London Assembly, which will reinvigorate London’s economy ensure that the budgetary process is post-pandemic. more accountable and that the Assembly is be!er resourced to carry out its scrutiny role. • Fund the creation of 11,000 green jobs to help London become a net-neutral • Restore the PHV exemption for the city. I pledge to commit at least 50 per Congestion Charge. In 2016 Sadiq Khan cent of the economic development promised that he would be the most funding available to City Hall to create business friendly mayor ever, but instead new ‘green’ jobs in London’s emerging he has removed the Congestion Charge economy, such as in green tech and local exemption that PHV drivers have always energy production. The path to recovery enjoyed. This is not right as it from the Covid-19 pandemic presents us increases the cost of business for PHV with the oppo"unity to build back be!er. drivers and passes on additional costs on So I will make sure that London creates to consumers. Because the removal of the jobs London will need in the future. the exemption has had a negligible e$ect on air quality, I will reinstate the • Create a London Infrastructure Bank to Congestion Charge exemption for PHV help sustain 160,000 jobs across drivers. London. My new London Infrastructure Bank, which will be a mayoral body that Creating good jobs to boost London’s leverages private sector investment in recovery infrastructure, will aid our economic recovery from the Covid pandemic by London is known for its vibrant economy. suppo"ing infrastructure jobs in London. But our economy doesn’t always work for By injecting up to £10.9bn of capital every resident in every community. And over investment into transpo" and other the past #ve years, Sadiq Khan has done infrastructure projects, the London nothing to #x it. That’s why London needs a Infrastructure Bank will help to fund fresh sta". As Mayor, I will tackle London’s 160,000 jobs across our city. problems by generating 924,000 jobs over #ve years and investing in more a$ordable Suppo#ing London’s businesses on the road housing, be!er transpo" infrastructure and to recovery new training oppo"unities. This will help our city recover from the pandemic and create a Sadiq Khan promised to be ‘the most fairer, more equal economy. pro-business Mayor ever.’ Instead, he let our high streets fall behind, raised our taxes As Mayor, I will and mismanaged TfL’s #nances. And even though he couldn’t #nd the money to invest • Invest in housebuilding to help create in small businesses, Sadiq Khan managed 720,000 London jobs. I will suppo" a to increase his own public relations budget construction boom by ensuring that at City Hall by 33 per cent. As Mayor, I will City Hall spends every single penny of reverse the damage of Sadiq Khan’s its housing budget. It is an unfo"unate mayoralty. I will back our small businesses, fact that Sadiq Khan, despite being given from central London to outer London. I will almost £5bn, has failed to meet his help to create an environment in which a$ordable housing targets. The sta"-ups can %ourish. And I will give our current Mayor’s mismanagement doesn’t economy the fresh sta" it needs. just a$ect the number of new homes Londoners have to live in, but it also has implications for the construction industry. By funding 100,000 new homes, my housebuilding initiative will leverage private investment and contribute

Launching London’s recovery 39 As Mayor, I will : impo"ant that London leads the conversation for greater levels of • Invest in London’s medical science international trade. As the Government sector by increasing funding for #nalises new trade agreements, I will MedCity by "ve fold. It became clear make sure that London is at the top- during the height of the pandemic just table and represented throughout the how much we as a city rely on negotiations. cu!ing-edge industries like biotech and medtech. The Covid-19 vaccine is a good • Hire a new Hospitality Czar to example of how investing in innovation champion our struggling hospitality can improve people’s lives for the be!er. industry. My new Hospitality Czar will I will build on investments into champion the 568,000 Londoners who organisations like the Crick Institute by work in the hospitality industry, which is the national Government to make 10 per cent of London’s total workforce. I London the number one destination for will make sure that all of the tools at City medical science. I will do this through a Hall’s disposal are deployed to ensure #ve-fold increase in funding to MedCity, that London’s hospitality industry which is the cluster organisation for the recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic health and life sciences sector in London. and thrives once again.

• Save our high streets with a £9m High • Immediately reopen Waterloo and City Street Recovery Fund. Even before the Line and Night Tube services. As we most recent lockdown, London was in recover from the pandemic, it is more the bo!om 10 cities for high street impo"ant than ever that Londoners are footfall and spending on the high street. able to move around the city. Sadiq Khan Unlike the current Mayor, I know our high has inde#nitely closed the Waterloo and streets are essential to London’s City line and suspended crucial Night recovery and central to community Tube services. As Mayor, I will stand up resilience. It is time to suppo" our for working Londoners by fully reopening struggling town centres, and I will do this the Waterloo and City Line and the Night by creating a new fund to suppo" new Tube services, to strengthen both the spaces for covered farmers markets, City of London and our struggling night small business pop-ups, and local culture time economy. venues across the city. • Build more a&ordable work spaces. • Fund 30-minutes of free parking in After we emerge from the current all Outer London boroughs that need Covid-19 crisis, London’s economy will it. I will stand up for our Outer London need a boost. As Mayor I pledge to make boroughs by encouraging travel to our it cheaper and easier to get back into struggling high streets. Ge!ing our working at an o&ce. I will retail and leisure sectors up and running immediately address this need by is essential, so I will invest £37.2m for prioritising the building of %exible 30-minute free parking for the duration workspaces of various sizes across of my #rst term. Our high streets need London. My City Hall will lead by a fresh sta" if we’re going to build a fair example and swiftly develop brown#eld economy across London that works for sites not suitable for housing. My City everyone. Hall will also work in pa"nership with developers to ensure that the largest • Appoint a Deputy Mayor for commercial prope"ies set aside space International Trade. My new deputy for a$ordable workspaces. mayor will work alongside the Depa"ment of International Trade to • Create a new West End Weekend Pass ensure that London is at the forefront of for one weekend in 2021. The West End the decision making process for future Weekend Pass will be a weekend-long trade agreements. Across London, 26 travelcard that allows Londoners to use per cent of businesses rely on expo"s to the transpo" network for free from all Europe and the rest of the world - it is zones. It will operate similar to the 2012

40 Launching London’s recovery Olympic Games Travelcards that • Establish a London Disability Taskforce. increased the ease of travel throughout Disabled people face signi"cant social London. With a small investment upfront, and health inequalities. Over one in four we will incentivise visitors to spend on disabled people live in pove"y. The living our high streets, enjoy the a"s, and help expenses for a disabled person are £570 our economy thrive out of lockdown. more each month than a person without a disability. I will seek to bridge this gap • Host an annual Festival of London, by establishing a taskforce which will beginning in Summer 2022. Modelled on suppo" employers to employ people with the Edinburgh Fringe, the Festival of disabilities and health conditions. The London will be a month-long series of taskforce will work closely with events to encourage tourists and employers in London and provide Londoners alike to a!end musical, guidance on a variety of disabilities, theatrical, and other cultural long-term health conditions, and suppo" pe'ormances. During the summer of that can be provided to enable an 2022, when Britain is hosting events like inclusive and suppo"ive work the Commonwealth Games and the UEFA environment. Fu"hermore, I will establish Women’s Euro 2022, City Hall will provide a disability cha"er with minimum grant funding, marketing resources and standards which employers can sign up adve"ising to suppo" the new festival. to if they meet the minimum criteria. In addition to bolstering spending on our a"s, restaurants, and high streets, the Festival will also generate revenue through ticket sales, registration fees, adve"ising, and sponsorship. I will ensure that these proceeds are reinjected into cultural activities.

Launching London’s recovery 41 42 Section CLEANER AIR AND A GREENER CITY Reducing London’s poor air quality and moving towards a carbon-neutral city Improving biodiversity throughout London Improving the natural environment for all Londoners

Section 43 CLEANER AIR AND A GREENER CITY

“I will clean up London’s air. As Mayor I will invest in a greener transpo# network.”

As the father of two children, I want Londoners to grow up breathing clean air and playing in green spaces. I believe that it’s our duty, as citizens, to pass on a healthy environment to the next generation. But too often, children in London grow up with breathing problems because of our di#y air. Too often, children don’t have access to the green spaces that make life in a big city liveable. That’s why we need a fresh sta#.

The spaces around us and the air we breathe Making London the greenest city on ea"h should be top priorities for the Mayor of is central to my plans. As Mayor, I will make London. But Sadiq Khan has broken too London a leading world capital by turning many of his promises for us to believe they grey spaces into green, capitalising on our are top priorities for him. renewable energy capabilities and pu!ing London at the forefront of innovative green Sadiq Khan promised to plant two million advancements. trees, but he planted just 15 per cent of that. He promised to restore London’s air to legal Reducing London’s poor air quality and and safe levels, but too many children are moving towards a carbon-neutral city still going to schools in polluted areas. He promised to protect and enhance London’s London can be the leading big city in the natural environment, but instead he removed global ba!le against climate change. But we planning protections for back gardens, need to take our task seriously - and that’s jeopardising our precious green spaces. something Sadiq Khan doesn’t do. Despite declaring a climate emergency, Sadiq Khan As an asthmatic, I care deeply about has racked up enough air miles to reach the reducing harmful emissions and making moon. Together with his team, Sadiq Khan London a zero-carbon city. It’s time for a %ew 280,000 miles around the world during fresh sta". In the face of a climate and air his time as Mayor. On top of that, London quality emergency, we can’t a$ord three Power, Sadiq Khan’s failed green energy more years of Sadiq Khan. company, has signed up fewer than 4,000 London households. Our city needs bold,

44 Cleaner air and a greener city innovative thinking if we are to become London’s roads. carbon-neutral by 2030. That’s why we need a fresh sta" in our ba!le against climate • Help to fund the creation of 11,000 new change. green jobs in my "rst three years. The #ght against climate change isn’t just As Mayor, my #rst step will be to treat good for the environment, it’s good for climate change like the emergency it is. To our economy. As we work to transition do this, I’ll boost spending to help create a London to a low-carbon economy, green economy. Harnessing London’s oppo"unities for good growth increase. innovative spirit, I will make sure our city I will accelerate this process on day one achieves its zero-carbon target by 2030. by commi!ing 50 per cent of City Hall’s economic development funding to help As Mayor, I will: create 11,000 new green jobs. Going green is good for the environment, good • Help black cabs to transition from for the economy, and good for London. diesel to electric. The Licensed Taxi Drivers Association repo"s that black • Fund and deliver the planting of cab licenses are down 3,500 in just four 500,000 extra trees and living roofs. months in 2020. Sadiq Khan intends to Not only will trees tackle the air pollution harm the industry fu"her by reducing on our roads and streets but they will the age limits of non-electric black cabs be integral to ensuring that London can from 15 years to 12 years. I will always achieve net zero. These types of roofs stand up for our black cab drivers by are where plants and trees are planted as providing interest-free loans to every standard into the fabric of the structure. single driver who wants to transition from Green roofs have been shown to increase diesel to electric. These loans will cover biodiversity by allowing more space for up to 10 per cent of the cost of a new inve"ebrate life. By using the full electric cab and incentivise rapid take planning powers at my disposal, I will up to create a zero-emission black cab require developers to fund the planting %eet in three years. Loans will be given of trees for every new home to every taxi driver, which will be funded constructed. Unlike the Mayor, I will through a new ten-year sponsorship deal ensure that my target to plant trees is that will be run along similar lines to the achieved. By the end of my term, I hope Santander cycle-hire scheme. to have presided over double the number of trees planted, than the • Ensure a zero-emission bus %eet by current Mayor. These trees will be a 2025. Of the 9,102 TfL buses on London’s combination of developer-funded trees streets today, only 400 are electric. Of - each developer will have to plant two the remainder, over half are di"y trees for each house that they build - as diesel and only one-third are hybrid, well as trees that will be directly funded lower emission buses. Toxic air by City Hall through securing London’s contributes to 6.6 per cent of all deaths po"ion of national government funds. in London. Sadiq Khan has said it will take until 2037 for a zero emission bus • Launch the Green Tech Challenge and %eet, that is not good enough. I pledge Green Tech Hub. My City Hall will provide that as mayor, I will put us on track to development funding to innovative reach a fully clean, zero-emission bus London-based tech companies that %eet. My City Hall will set aside revenue present new solutions to our unique from ULEZ speci#cally to conve" our environmental challenges. I will also lobby %eet to zero-emission buses. Moreover, the national Government for suppo" to I will mandate that all new bus contracts establish a Green Tech Hub in West will come with the requirement that new London, to rival Shoreditch’s Tech City. buses must be zero-emission vehicles. My City Hall will back the next big British I will work to ensure ⅔ of the bus %eet Unicorns, like Arrival which are a are electric and at least ⅓ are hydrogen. zero-emission urban transpo" #rm, This project alone will be environmentally which will bring investment to London. equivalent to taking one million cars o$ Our mission to tech #rms is clear: if you

Cleaner air and a greener city 45 invest in a Green London, we will invest in they receive their fair share of the you. reallocated £270 million Green Homes Grant which the Government have now • Convene a London ‘COP Summit’ to redirected into a programme spearhead our response to climate administered by local authorities. I will change. We will work with the work with councils to ensure funding Government to link London COP to the from this pot will go towards 9,000 new international COP26 summit, which will solar panel-enabled homes. GLA will be hosted in November by the U.K. I will target lower income households across bring together stakeholders across every London, reducing our reliance on and use sector of the industry to set climate of fossil fuels. change targets and plan how to achieve speci#c industry and local-level green • Ensure the entire GLA estate is objectives. As Mayor I will convene a carbon-neutral. London’s public yearly summit, a ‘London COP’. sector annual electricity demand, for local authorities’ o&ces, schools, and • Implement new green tech to reduce the GLA, totals 3TWh of electricity every our carbon footprint. I will introduce year. This is equivalent to powering innovative technology to reduce 820,000 homes. During my term, City London’s carbon footprint. Technology Hall will lead the way on this by making such as Pavegen’s kinetic tiles capture the same commitments to green energy the energy produced by the weight of that we’re asking of every Londoner. By pedestrians’ footsteps. And Macrebur, making the GLA group net-zero I will which is a British company, uses plastic reduce the emissions that are waste to pave the roads. Using capital a!ributable to the GLA group, which is from the Healthy Streets Fund in the TfL the equivalent of taking 32,622 cars o$ budget, I will install green tech the road each year. As Mayor, I will throughout London. Technology such as transition the entire GLA estate to this can provide o$-grid green energy to renewable energy sources and strive power our streets and the TfL transpo" toward a fully net-neutral GLA estate by network. I’ll put City Hall behind green 2030. tech today, so that we all reap the bene#ts tomorrow. • Oppose the expansion of Heathrow Airpo# in all forms. The threat of • Expand the number of London homes expansion of Heathrow Airpo" is a deep powered with TfL waste heat. Household concern for many. An expansion would heating comprises 40 per cent of the represent a risk to the wellbeing of those UK’s energy consumption. In fact, homes who live in South West and West London. in the UK emit the same quantity of It has been proven time and again that an greenhouse gases as cars in the UK. As expansion of Heathrow will lead to Mayor, I will considerably expand the use poorer air quality and much higher levels of local energy centres, which are energy of noise pollution. As such, I will ensure production sites that capture the thermal that not a penny of TfL funds will go energy generated by our underground towards expanding the airpo", so that tube network every day to produce heat. expansion is less likely to ever happen. I will also launch a TfL Waste Heat Plan which will help save the environment, save money for homeowners, and save TfL’s #nances by creating a new revenue stream.

• Spark a solar revolution in housing. I will do everything in my power to increase the supply of renewable energy in London, ensuring London becomes a world leader in this area. I will work with local councils in London to ensure that

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Improving biodiversity throughout London • Reclaim and revitalise the Thames. In 1957, the Natural History Museum Londoners deserve a vibrant and green declared the Thames to be biologically environment. That means helping everyone dead. Since then we’ve slowly improved get access to green spaces. As Mayor, I will the Thames but that progress has slowed plant a new set of ‘green lungs’, clean up the over the past #ve years - a qua"er of #sh River Thames, and expand wildlife corridors in the Thames Estuary have consumed to make London more beautiful and liveable and contained plastic. I will restore the for future generations. Thames at the ambitious rate of 5km a year, guaranteeing 15km is restored by As Mayor, I will: the end of my #rst term to increase marine wildlife. I will also champion • Plant a new set of ‘green lungs’ by anti-li!ering campaigns to protect the widening our network of urban biodiversity of the Thames. This is a vital woodland. Nine in ten Londoners say we step towards ensuring that all Londoners need more trees, and for good reason. can enjoy a clean Thames. Londoners get over £133m in bene#ts from our trees every year as they help • Pave the way for a pesticide-free improve air quality by removing 2,241 London. Local authorities across the tonnes of pollution annually. To expand UK are prominent users of pesticides. our tree coverage, I will conve" disused Roughly 38 di$erent toxic pesticides are public land and brown#eld sites that are used across the country, spraying them not suitable for housing into lush, urban on public land, gardens and public forests across our city to ensure housing. London must lead the way in Londoners have greater access to green responsible environmental practices. spaces. Nearly 15,000 species in London, Other local government bodies have including eight species of bats, the already begun to phase out its use of largest population of stag beetles in pesticides, as have Paris and other cities England, and hundreds of bird species, in Europe. I will work with local councils to depend on London’s woodland habitats. I phase out pesticide use in London over will use the full powers at my disposal to my #rst term. make London the most bioverse major city in the world. Improving the natural environment for all Londoners • Create new wildlife corridors throughout the whole of London. Protecting our environment is about London wildlife su$ers when the green preserving London’s beauty and cleaning spaces they call home are not connected up our toxic air. In some pa"s of our city, to other green spaces like gardens and breathing the air for a year is worse than parks which allow biodiversity to smoking 150 cigare!es. Over the last #ve %ourish. Research conducted by the years, Sadiq Khan has failed to prioritise London Wildlife Trust shows that the health of our children. As a result, many London’s gardens are changing from of our schools continue to be situated in green to grey, damaging the wildlife that places with dangerous or illegal levels of need these green spaces. The UK has air pollution. It’s time for a fresh sta". And lost 90 per cent of our hedgehogs and that means cleaning up the air around our 97 per cent of our wild%ower #elds which schools so that our kids can breathe easy. suppo" bees and bu!e'lies over the last half century. I will use City Hall powers As Mayor, I will: and funds to roll-out initiatives that connect green spaces including planting • Plant living walls around the schools that new wild%ower meadows in our pocket exceed legal limits for air pollution. parks, hanging baskets on high streets, Living walls are walls which include mixed hedgerow in and around our ve"ical planted gardens that can reduce schools, and living roofs to act as new pollution by up to 30 per cent and help homes for our valuable urban pollinators. our children breathe more easily. I will

Cleaner air and a greener city 47 utilise money from the TfL Healthy charities to open up our great river to all Streets Fund to ensure students are Londoners. City Hall will work to increase given the space to breathe cleaner air in access to rowing, canoeing, and kayaking London, protecting the environment and by developing small public spo"s our lungs. facilities with rental equipment. As Mayor, I will enable more people to use • Launch “rural education pa#nerships’’ and enjoy the River Thames. between primary schools and rural farms. This new program is a vital step to • Incentivise the use of fully-electric connect our London schoolchildren with refuse collection in London. Very few nature and farming by funding school refuse vehicles are electric, and di"y trips to rural farms. I will also establish a diesel trucks are continuing to pollute Rural Education in Schools Fund, which our streets, despite there being zero will provide micro grants of up to £5,000 emissions alternatives on the market. I of funding towards schools to implement will work with local boroughs to ensure green projects. Schools can create that all new contracts include provisions edible school playgrounds where children for fully-electric refuse collection. Trials grow their own food, build coops to raise of electric collection lorries have been chickens at schools, add plants and trees successful across three London to playgrounds, and dive into boroughs and have lower running costs educational programs focused on nature than standard diesel powered and the outdoors. alternatives. Electric rubbish trucks should be expanded as rapidly as • Establish a new Children’s Tree Fund. possible, within the constraints of Through this new programme every existing contracts, to all of London. reception-age child will be given a new tree to plant in London. City Hall will work • Turn London’s grey spaces into green by with schools to fund and roll out this creating 300 new pocket parks. programme, providing families with the Nationally, eight of the ten top councils option to plant trees at a ceremony for green space deprivation are in hosted by the school or as a family London. Almost 40 per cent of people of activity with resources provided by the black, asian and minority ethnic school. Children can plant their trees in backgrounds live in areas that lack designated spaces within local boroughs, adequate green space. I believe that private gardens, school yards, or everyone has a right to beauty and rewilding projects. greenspace, no ma!er their background. So I will revitalise our green spaces with • Improve the air quality in all of London’s the funding available from the Tube stations. I will do this by installing Streetspace Fund Liveable electrostatic #lters that capture dust and Neighbourhood fund to create 300 new metal pa"iculates by up to 95 per cent at pockets parks. every platform. Over 4.8m journeys are made on the underground every day. In • Connect more Londoners to nature some pa"s of the Tube, the levels of through more city farms and pollution are ten times higher than the allotments. Having public access to levels set out by the World Health green spaces connects Londoners and Organisation guidelines. During each visitors to nature and provides and journey, Londoners are breathing in improves physical and mental wellbeing. toxic air which potentially leads to poor Research from Oxford University showed health outcomes. This is simply not good that just 30 minutes of gardening a week enough. has a bene#cial e$ect on health. I will use the Healthy Streets Budget to invest • Create an active Thames for all £5m in the city’s farms and to create Londoners. I will convene a multi- 1,000 farm allotments in London. I will agency approach with organisations such use brown#eld land that has not received as Spo"s England, Thames Water, Royal planning permission and cannot be used Docks, Thames Baths, and environmental for housing to create a greener London. I

48 Cleaner air and a greener city will also promote a ‘London Grown’ brand of the capital’s sustainable food production to raise awareness of the bene#ts of urban farming and its positive impact on the environment.

• Use the planning powers already available to protect and enhance our greenbelt. London is losing the equivalent of two Hyde Parks a year in green spaces. We need to protect our green spaces across London so we don’t lose our natural environment forever. I will put the strongest protections in place to protect our valued and precious greenbelt and metropolitan open land.

Cleaner air and a greener city 49 50 Section A LONDON THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE

Section 51 A LONDON THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE

“Sadiq Khan has been a Mayor for Zone One. I’ll be a Mayor for every resident in every community. Because only by working together can we give London a fresh sta#.”

London is more than just the skyscrapers in Canary Wha' or the businesses in Mayfair. London is the greatest city on ea#h because of our values. We are a multiracial, multicultural city that thrives because every community has a say. But as a black man from Ladbroke Grove, I know we’ve still got work to do in order to build a more equal city.

I want to live in a city where every Londoner called for the Mayor of London to use feels like they have a voice. Where we stand City Hall’s in%uence to stand up to up for the values we believe in. Where fewer China. City Hall’s extensive links to Beijing and fewer people su$er from hunger, mental means that this is an action well within illness and period pove"y. And where the Mayor’s remit. I will implement City minority communities see themselves Hall sanctions on China. I will end the represented in our leaders and our public twinning arrangement between London statues. I know we can make this city a and Beijing, halt all Mayoral delegations reality - if we work together. So as Mayor, to China, close the three o&ces in China I will stand up for London’s values on the which belong to the Mayors promotional world stage. I will work with every resident in company (London and Pa"ners), refuse every community to build a more equal city. to accept hospitality from Chinese And together, we’ll give London a fresh sta". Government and introduce an obligation for TfL pension fund trustees to consider As Mayor, I will: issues of human rights when investing in companies. • Impose City Hall sanctions on China until it stops commi!ing human rights • Use the power of City Hall to ensure that abuses. China is undermining human BN(O)s from Hong Kong have access to rights in Hong Kong through it’s the resources they need. I will oppressive national security law and introduce a free information service for commi!ing genocide against Uyghur Hong Kongers in London, which would Muslims in Xinjiang. I have repeatedly include Cantonese-speaking services,

52 A London that works for everyone advice on the job market, places to rent, suppo" it needs to save food waste and and more for new residents, just like our combat food pove"y. I will make it my city rightly did for EU citizens after Brexit. mission to make sure no child goes London is a global city with global hungry in our city. responsibilities, and as Mayor I will ensure we make London a city open to Hong • Help to end period pove#y for the most Kongers. I look forward to Hong Kongers vulnerable. Research carried out by City contributing to and enhancing this global Hall reveals that 17 per cent of women city’s vibrant and multicultural aged 16-24 say that they have environment. experienced period pove"y, and this has only worsened since the sta" of the • End all HIV transmission in London by pandemic. Homeless women have some 2028. There are at least 105,200 people of the highest rates of period living with HIV in the UK. Roughly 36 per pove"y, and homelessness in London has cent of new HIV diagnoses and 38 per increased by 23 per cent over the last cent of people seen for HIV care were qua"er. Currently, homeless shelters do living in London. In recent years, there not get funding for sanitary products. I has been enormous progress in will provide funding to allow shelters and diagnosing, treating, and preventing period product distribution organisations transmission of HIV in the UK. I will work to purchase period products for with the Government and the NHS to homeless women and combat period ensure that public resources are targeted pove"y. Through these pa"nerships, and towards at-risk groups and beyond, as through the Government’s scheme for the number of new transmissions falls. schools, I will ensure that no woman is From the LGBT community to a$ected left in period pove"y in London. ethinic minority communities, I will campaign to make sure that every • Implement the Amsterdam Model for Londoner has access to a test, tackling obesity in London. The treatment, and PrEP. I want London to Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the be a world leader in tackling HIV and to impo"ance of improving public health ensure that within the decade, by 2028, and ending obesity. Nearly 40 per cent there are no new transmissions of HIV in of London’s children are overweight or London, which I will help to do by obese, with the highest rates occurring increasing the funding for MedCIty and in the areas of greatest deprivation. In similar science initiatives by #ve-fold. the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Healthy Weight programme was established • Increase suppo# for organisations to combat this and give every child a combating child food pove#y. As we healthy childhood, regardless of their recover from the Covid-19 crisis, many sta" in life. Under the Amsterdam families are struggling #nancially. One in Model, local government works with six parents in the Capital have children schools and community activists to who experience food insecurity, along promote physical activity for all children. with 36 per cent of single parents and 32 It teaches young people and parents per cent of black Londoners. Food about the impo"ance of nutrition and insecurity carries a huge cost for the rest how to cook healthy foods from early of children’s lives, a$ecting their childhood. I would increase the GLA relationships, school a!ainment, public health budget for tackling mental wellbeing and physical health. The childhood obesity and introduce this food industry generates almost 2 million model across London in pa"nership with tonnes of good, edible surplus food each boroughs, schools and charities. year, and currently less than 1 per cent is recycled for human consumption. • Scrap Sadiq Khan’s Commission for Organisations such as the Felix Project Diversity in the Public Realm. City Hall rescues almost 10 tonnes of pe'ectly bureaucrats should not decide which good and healthy surplus food daily. I will statues get to stay and which statues are establish a fund to ensure every borough removed. Sadiq Khan’s Commission will in London has the infrastructure and cost Londoners over £1m. On day one

A London that works for everyone 53 of my mayoralty, I will scrap the current Mayor’s pointless statues commission. I am commi!ed to bringing people together, not tearing down statues and rewriting our history.

• Install Peoples’ Plinths to celebrate London’s minority and female heroes. Some estimates suggest that only 2.7 per cent of non-royal statues are of women. And even though Nelson Mandela and Mary Seacole have statues dedicated to them, minorities are under-represented in our public realm. To address this, I will launch a new Peoples’ Plinths programme that would fund the placing of 20 new statues across London that will • Appoint a Deputy Mayor for Women and celebrate the contribution minorities and Equalities. Sexual assaults repo"ed on other under-represented groups have the Tube soared by 43 per cent in the made to our country. #rst four years of Sadiq Khan’s term since 2016. The number of women sleeping • Suppo# ethnic minority excellence in rough in London has increased by almost London. I will #x the unequal pay gap 50 per cent since Sadiq Khan’s election that shockingly still exists at City Hall, in 2016. London has the highest gender where white British sta$ are paid 11 pay gap of all the regions of the UK, and per cent more than sta$ from minority over Sadiq Khan’s mayoralty progress has backgrounds and champion equal pay stalled on the path towards equal pay. throughout London’s business This is not good enough for the community. It is a shocking fact that women in London. My new Deputy there are more FTSE 100 CEOs named Mayor for Women and Equalities will work Steve than CEOs who are black. The across di$erent City Hall depa"ments O&ce for National Statistics’ (ONS) found addressing the cross cu!ing issues that south Asian workers were paid less than a$ect women in London to help create a their white counterpa"s, Bangladeshi more equal society. workers and Pakistani workers earned 20 per cent and 17 per cent less per hour. • Appoint a new Deputy Mayor for Young I will make it a priority to promote ethnic People. Almost a qua"er of all Londoners minority excellence on our streets and in are under 25 and London has a our businesses. reputation for being a thriving city for young people. We risk losing that as • Suppo# the right to worship with a London becomes less a$ordable every presumption in favour of places of year. A 23 year old would have to earn worship. London is the most religious two and a half times more than their pa" of the UK. People in the Capital pray minimum wage to live in Central London. more and a!end more religious I will introduce a new position for the services than those in the rest of the Deputy Mayor for Young People to country. With growing numbers of ensure that the issues which most worshippers, many faith communities are directly a$ect young people are forced to worship in warehouses and in represented at the highest levels of their homes. This is clearly unacceptable. London’s government. I will modify the London Plan to include a presumption in favour of places of worship, so that community groups looking to establish a church, mosque, temple, synagogue, gurdwara or other place of worship can do so more easily.

54 A London that works for everyone WHY WE’RE BACKING SHAUN BAILEY FROM THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW HIM BEST

“When the Covid-19 “Seeing Shaun where he is pandemic hit, Shaun today and when you think was with us to ensure back to how he was, you vulnerable members realise this is what he was of our society received destined for. I am proud emergency shopping to see that someone from and prescription our community is where deliveries. Whilst they are today. That should be uplifting for all working with us, he has assisted homeless young people and inspiring all people like my- people in supplying tents, sleeping bags and self and youngsters to say that’s Shaun Bailey, food. I’m honoured that Shaun volunteers he was from round here, he used to walk up with us and with his empathy and honesty.” and down these streets, now look at him.”

— Paula Mulvihill — Mutaz Trustee – Take a Knife, Mentored by Shaun Save a Life

“Shaun Bailey’s Fresh “Shaun is di$erent to Sta" Plan means safer any politician I’ve seen. streets, more a$ordable He doesn’t read from a homes, and a transpo" script. He doesn’t play network #t for a global political games. city. He’s stared down discrimination. I’m delighted to back Shaun Bailey for Mayor of London - and I look He’s not afraid to speak out about the forward to working with him this May.” challenges we face. “

— Rishi Sunak Chancellor of the Exchequer — Rakhia Ismail Former Labour Mayor of Islington

“Throughout his life, Shaun Bailey has shown his commitment to London. Helping young people get out of crime. Helping to improve relations between police and under-represented communities. Helping to make this a be!er city for our children. He’ll show that same commitment as Mayor. That’s why I’m backing Shaun Bailey for Mayor of London.” — Boris Johnson Prime Minister Promoted by Julian Walden on behalf of Shaun Bailey and the London Conservative Candidates, all at 4 Ma!hew Parker Street, SW1H 9HQ. Printed by Paragon, 16-18 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7EB