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A Manifesto for all Londoners

7791 _16 Promoted by Dan Simpson on behalf of the London Labour Party both at Ergon House, Horseferry Rd, London SWIP 2AL. Printed by Potts Print (UK), Atlas House, Nelson Park, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 1WG A Manifesto CONTENTS for all Londoners Foreword 4 My priorities 8

Business, prosperity and opportunity 10

Homes for Londoners 18

A modern and affordable transport network 28

A safer and more secure London 38

Skills for Londoners 46

A fairer and more equal city 54

A greener, cleaner London 62

Improving London’s health 70

Making the most of arts, culture and creativity 76

Sadiq Khan and London Labour’s Manifesto 2016 A AManifesto Manifesto CONTENTSCONTENTS forfor all all Londoners Londoners ForewordForeword 4 4 My prioritiesMy priorities 8 8

Business,Business, prosperity prosperity and opportunity and opportunity 10 10

HomesHomes for Londoners for Londoners 18 18

A modernA modern and affordable and affordable transport transport network network 28 28

A saferA saferand more and more secure secure London London 38 38

Skills Skillsfor Londoners for Londoners 46 46

A fairerA fairer and more and more equal equal city city 54 54

A greener,A greener, cleaner cleaner London London 62 62

ImprovingImproving London’s London’s health health 70 70

MakingMaking the most the mostof arts, of culturearts, culture and creativity and creativity 76 76

SadiqSadiq Khan Khan and and London London Labour’s Labour’s Manifesto Manifesto 2016 2016

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Our city gave me the opportunity to go For a child on a council estate today, from the council estate where I grew London is not the city of opportunity up to helping to run a business, serving that it was for my brothers, my sister as Transport Minister and now running and me. for Mayor. I had the benefit of a good For young families and individuals state school, a place at university that I on average incomes, housing is could afford, and ultimately, good jobs increasingly unaffordable – with home for my wife and me that enabled us to ownership a distant dream. Social buy a family home. mobility is failing. In-work poverty is But today, Londoners are being priced rising. Rocketing transport fares are out of our city. The next generation making it more expensive to get to is missing out on the opportunities that work or training. our city gave me when I was growing London’s status as one of the world’s up. leading commercial and cultural capitals, and the prosperity that it brings, is not assured.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 3 03/03/2016 14:24 We are in competition, not just with is central to ensuring that our city Olympic precept. My promise is to keep New York, Paris, LA and Tokyo, but remains a place of opportunity. council tax as low as possible without with rising powerhouse city economies I’ll work with businesses to ensure that risking Londoners’ safety. such as Beijing, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, more Londoners have access to the I’ve got the experience, values and Mumbai, Mexico City and Moscow. skills they and our economy need, and vision to put London back on the right I’ll stand alongside business leaders in We cannot afford to price ordinary, track. campaigning for Britain to stay in the working Londoners out of our city. EU. I’ll be a Mayor for all Londoners. If we shut down opportunity, London will become closed to the young, I’ll also be the greenest Mayor ever, to the entrepreneurs, and to the seeking to establish London as a leader hard-working people who make our in low-carbon innovation and industry, economy and communities tick. cleaning up our dangerously polluted air, and setting out an ambitious long- My mission is to restore opportunity, term plan for clean energy and in doing so to protect and advance in our capital. Sadiq Khan MP London’s competitiveness and its Labour’s candidate status as a world-leading city for I’ll make sure that our transport for Mayor of London business, creativity, and fairness. services meet the needs of a modern economy, while remaining affordable. My first priority will be tackling the sadiq.london housing crisis. We need to build And I will make London safer and more homes, including more more secure, with a renewed focus genuinely affordable homes for on neighbourhood policing, action to Londoners, and fewer gold bricks for tackle the spread of extremism, and overseas investors. fighting for the resources our police and fire services need. And I’ll be the most pro-business Mayor yet. Not just because I’ve helped to In doing so, I will keep the GLA council run a business, and understand the tax precept down as far as possible. challenges that those trying to grow With money so tight for so many an enterprise face, but because I know Londoners, I supported the decision to that a prosperous, growing economy cut council tax following the end of the

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 4 03/03/2016 14:24 We are in competition, not just with is central to ensuring that our city Olympic precept. My promise is to keep New York, Paris, LA and Tokyo, but remains a place of opportunity. council tax as low as possible without with rising powerhouse city economies I’ll work with businesses to ensure that risking Londoners’ safety. such as Beijing, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, more Londoners have access to the I’ve got the experience, values and Mumbai, Mexico City and Moscow. skills they and our economy need, and vision to put London back on the right I’ll stand alongside business leaders in We cannot afford to price ordinary, track. campaigning for Britain to stay in the working Londoners out of our city. EU. I’ll be a Mayor for all Londoners. If we shut down opportunity, London will become closed to the young, I’ll also be the greenest Mayor ever, to the entrepreneurs, and to the seeking to establish London as a leader hard-working people who make our in low-carbon innovation and industry, economy and communities tick. cleaning up our dangerously polluted air, and setting out an ambitious long- My mission is to restore opportunity, term plan for clean energy and in doing so to protect and advance in our capital. Sadiq Khan MP London’s competitiveness and its Labour’s candidate status as a world-leading city for I’ll make sure that our transport for Mayor of London business, creativity, and fairness. services meet the needs of a modern economy, while remaining affordable. My first priority will be tackling the sadiq.london housing crisis. We need to build And I will make London safer and more homes, including more more secure, with a renewed focus genuinely affordable homes for on neighbourhood policing, action to Londoners, and fewer gold bricks for tackle the spread of extremism, and overseas investors. fighting for the resources our police and fire services need. And I’ll be the most pro-business Mayor yet. Not just because I’ve helped to In doing so, I will keep the GLA council run a business, and understand the tax precept down as far as possible. challenges that those trying to grow With money so tight for so many an enterprise face, but because I know Londoners, I supported the decision to that a prosperous, growing economy cut council tax following the end of the

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• Tackle the housing crisis, building • Set up Skills for Londoners to thousands more homes for ensure all Londoners have the Londoners each year, setting an opportunity to train in the skills ambitious target of 50 per cent that our economy needs. of new homes being genuinely • Tackle low pay, working with affordable, and getting a better employers to make London a deal for renters. Living Wage City. • Freeze TfL transport fares for four • Challenge gender inequality, years and introduce a one-hour working to close the gender pay bus ‘Hopper’ ticket, paid for by gap and support women to break making TfL more efficient and the glass ceiling while helping to exploring new revenue-raising remove the barriers to women’s opportunities. Londoners won’t success. pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do today. • Make cycling and walking safer, with more segregated cycle routes, • Make London safer, with action to action on dangerous junctions, and restore neighbourhood policing, safer lorries. tackle gangs and knife crime, a plan to tackle the spread of • Make London a fairer and more extremism, and a review of the tolerant city, open and accessible resourcing of our fire service. to all, and one in which all can live and prosper free from prejudice. • Be the most pro-business Mayor yet, working in partnership with industry to deliver on skills, infrastructure, and growth.

• Restore London’s air quality to legal and safe levels, with action to make travel greener and pedestrianise Oxford Street, while protecting the green belt.

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• Restore London’s air quality to legal and safe levels, with action to make travel greener and pedestrianise Oxford Street, while protecting the green belt.

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The opportunities that I benefited from – which led to me becoming a partner in a law firm and then MP for the neighbourhood where I grew up – I owe to London’s prosperity, openness and spirit of enterprise.

Helping run and grow that business, in our traditional and new industries. taught me about the challenges that And we need to make it possible for all the business community faces. I want Londoners to reach the top, regardless to be the most pro-business Mayor yet of their background, race, religion or - working with business, in partnership, gender. to make London a more prosperous The wellbeing of Londoners and the city and to spread the opportunity that prosperity of our businesses are brings to all Londoners. inseparable and mutually dependent. I believe an active Mayor, committed good work that is done across the city London is the world’s greatest Many of the challenges that affect the to London’s continued growth and on skills and economic development is commercial centre – the business prosperity and living standards of you prosperity, can do much more to properly joined up. capital not just of Britain, but of and your family are the same problems support business than just attending a Europe. We are an established world that hold business back – the housing A partnership with business few trade missions and ribbon cuttings leader in finance, creative industries crisis, the need for a more affordable I will work in partnership with business (though I’ll continue with those as and business services, and a growing transport network with new capacity, to deliver solutions to the challenges well!). That’s why I’m determined to force in newer industries such as the shortage of skills, and the lack of that hold growth back, and to help be the most pro-business Mayor of tech, low carbon and life sciences, available business space. spread opportunity throughout our London yet. I’ll make engagement with as well as having some of the most city. Dismantling the barriers to growth that industry – from small independents innovative manufacturing businesses exist, and increasing productivity, will and start-ups to global corporations – I will: around. Because it is such a great place be one of my priorities. I’m determined a key part of decision making to live and work in, London attracts • Create a Business Advisory to be a ceaseless advocate for at City Hall. When it comes to organisations, talent and investment Board – made up of experts, investment in London, and a champion planning London’s future economic from across the globe. not of political allies – to provide for the interests of our industries, development, infrastructure, skills and me with guidance and insight to But retaining our place at the top is at home and abroad. housing will be my foremost priorities. find the solutions to London’s not a given. We need to work hard And I’ll build stronger partnerships growth challenges and to provide together to stay competitive, to between the private sector, public and feedback on my policy. increase productivity, and to make voluntary agencies to work strategically the most of opportunities for growth across London – making sure that the

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 11 03/03/2016 14:24 Supporting competitiveness and Supporting small business and Championing London at home productivity protecting business space and abroad An active Mayor can help to break Our small businesses, start-ups and London needs a passionate advocate, down the obstacles that hold back entrepreneurs are at the heart of our at home and abroad, to make the London’s firms and affect their economy and our communities, and case for our businesses, for inward competitiveness. supporting them to grow, innovate and investment and tourism, and to ensure create wealth and jobs will be central to that decision makers in Westminster, I will: my plans. Brussels and elsewhere hear the voice • Take action on London’s housing of Europe’s biggest commercial centre I will: crisis – a step change in new loud and clear. housing supply, to rent and to buy, • Prevent the loss of business space, I will: with first dibs for Londoners, and by working with local authorities to exploring incentives for businesses stop the excessive conversion of • Champion London industry at to provide investment in new commercial space under permitted home and abroad, making the homes which could benefit their development rights. case for inward investment in our • Involve business in decision workforce. city, and working to attract ever • Promote the provision of small making on key issues of policy and more global business. • Make childcare more affordable business and start-up premises planning, from skills and housing and accessible with a strategy in housing and commercial • Campaign to stay in a reformed costs, to transport infrastructure that delivers for business and developments through the EU, defending competitiveness and business space. workers – including key-worker London Plan. and jobs by fighting for our • Establish Skills for Londoners, status for childcare workers and membership of the world’s largest • Provide live-work units as part of working with business to ensure campaigning for business rate market, and protecting London’s the Mayor’s affordable housing Londoners have the skills they relief for childcare providers. status as its financial capital. programme. need to grow. • Challenge unfair visa rules which • Establish City Hall as a strong • Support communities which want make it harder for London voice for business at both UK to keep the character of their high businesses to bring in the and EU level, working to ensure streets intact. world’s best talent, who in turn a level playing field for London create future opportunities for and to protect our economy Londoners. from unnecessary red tape and laws which could put our competitiveness at risk.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 12 03/03/2016 14:24 Supporting competitiveness and Supporting small business and Championing London at home productivity protecting business space and abroad An active Mayor can help to break Our small businesses, start-ups and London needs a passionate advocate, down the obstacles that hold back entrepreneurs are at the heart of our at home and abroad, to make the London’s firms and affect their economy and our communities, and case for our businesses, for inward competitiveness. supporting them to grow, innovate and investment and tourism, and to ensure create wealth and jobs will be central to that decision makers in Westminster, I will: my plans. Brussels and elsewhere hear the voice • Take action on London’s housing of Europe’s biggest commercial centre I will: crisis – a step change in new loud and clear. housing supply, to rent and to buy, • Prevent the loss of business space, I will: with first dibs for Londoners, and by working with local authorities to exploring incentives for businesses stop the excessive conversion of • Champion London industry at to provide investment in new commercial space under permitted home and abroad, making the homes which could benefit their development rights. case for inward investment in our • Involve business in decision workforce. city, and working to attract ever • Promote the provision of small making on key issues of policy and more global business. • Make childcare more affordable business and start-up premises planning, from skills and housing and accessible with a strategy in housing and commercial • Campaign to stay in a reformed costs, to transport infrastructure that delivers for business and developments through the EU, defending competitiveness and business space. workers – including key-worker London Plan. and jobs by fighting for our • Establish Skills for Londoners, status for childcare workers and membership of the world’s largest • Provide live-work units as part of working with business to ensure campaigning for business rate market, and protecting London’s the Mayor’s affordable housing Londoners have the skills they relief for childcare providers. status as its financial capital. programme. need to grow. • Challenge unfair visa rules which • Establish City Hall as a strong • Support communities which want make it harder for London voice for business at both UK to keep the character of their high businesses to bring in the and EU level, working to ensure streets intact. world’s best talent, who in turn a level playing field for London create future opportunities for and to protect our economy Londoners. from unnecessary red tape and laws which could put our competitiveness at risk.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 13 03/03/2016 14:24 Building the infrastructure of Taking Tech to the next level • Broker a deal between providers the future London can become a world-leading and local authorities to provide I speak with businesses across the city tech hub – as Mayor I’ll work to remove better access to public property and I know how important it is we have the barriers to growth in London tech, and land for the installation of the modern infrastructure we need as and take advantage of the innovative broadband infrastructure. a city to grow and expand. work happening in our city to improve • Appoint a Chief Digital Officer to governance. I will: oversee growth in the sector as I will: well as taking responsibility for • Put business centre stage in increasing digital inclusion planning our future infrastructure • Establish a tech talent pipeline, across our city and leading on needs. through the Skills for Londoners cyber-security. taskforce, following the model • Plan for the long term, securing developed by Bill de Blasio in New • Put an open data strategy at the Crossrail 2, Bakerloo line and York, with more young people heart of London government, London Overground extensions, enabled and encouraged to with a new London data office as well as new river crossings, and gain key digital skills, and more working to bring data from across move on to discussions about apprenticeships in the sector. In London’s boroughs and public Crossrail 3 and new orbital links. particular I will ensure more girls agencies together, and opening • Support new aviation capacity for are supported to develop tech it up to enable quicker decision London, backing a second runway skills, so that we can turn around making, better services, more at Gatwick and reviewing Boris the under-representation of efficient government, and greater Johnson’s decision on London City. women in tech jobs. transparency.

• Seek additional fundraising powers • Improve our connectivity, making • Support innovative tech solutions from the Government for major it a priority to tackle London’s which enable Londoners to infrastructure projects, such as ‘notspots’, ensuring better access access and use public services those used for Crossrail. to public-sector property for digital and information more easily and infrastructure, and treating digital efficiently. infrastructure with the same status as other key public utilities.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p3_sh.indd 14 03/03/2016 15:51 Building the infrastructure of Taking Tech to the next level • Broker a deal between providers the future London can become a world-leading and local authorities to provide I speak with businesses across the city tech hub – as Mayor I’ll work to remove better access to public property and I know how important it is we have the barriers to growth in London tech, and land for the installation of the modern infrastructure we need as and take advantage of the innovative broadband infrastructure. a city to grow and expand. work happening in our city to improve • Appoint a Chief Digital Officer to governance. I will: oversee growth in the sector as I will: well as taking responsibility for • Put business centre stage in increasing digital inclusion planning our future infrastructure • Establish a tech talent pipeline, across our city and leading on needs. through the Skills for Londoners cyber-security. taskforce, following the model • Plan for the long term, securing developed by Bill de Blasio in New • Put an open data strategy at the Crossrail 2, Bakerloo line and York, with more young people heart of London government, London Overground extensions, enabled and encouraged to with a new London data office as well as new river crossings, and gain key digital skills, and more working to bring data from across move on to discussions about apprenticeships in the sector. In London’s boroughs and public Crossrail 3 and new orbital links. particular I will ensure more girls agencies together, and opening • Support new aviation capacity for are supported to develop tech it up to enable quicker decision London, backing a second runway skills, so that we can turn around making, better services, more at Gatwick and reviewing Boris the under-representation of efficient government, and greater Johnson’s decision on London City. women in tech jobs. transparency.

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The housing crisis is the single biggest barrier to prosperity, growth and fairness facing Londoners today. I’ve found that, both as a MP, and throughout my campaign to be Mayor of London, it doesn’t matter whether you’re talking to business leaders, local residents, charities or community groups: far and away the biggest issue across the board is London’s housing crisis. The city’s shortage of decent and affordable homes is causing real misery to millions of Londoners, and damaging London’s competitiveness.

The effects are well known. People who that number. And when they are built, grew up in London unable to rent or too often they are not the properties logjam by setting up Homes for buy, parents forced to raise children that London needs. Too many are sold Londoners – a new and powerful GENUINELY AFFORDABLE in homes that are too small, and rents off-plan to overseas investors, only to team at the heart of City Hall – and HOMES taking up more and more of people’s sit empty, and too many are simply building an alliance of all those with Homes for Londoners will build income. Home ownership is slipping not affordable – a consequence of the a stake in building new homes for the genuinely affordable homes increasingly out of reach for more and Mayor’s failure to set a clearer target Londoners. This will include councils, we need, including: more Londoners, and homelessness is for affordable housing. Yet, rather housing associations, developers, • Homes for social rent, rising for the first time in a generation. than taking action to create genuinely home-builders, investors, businesses, supporting councils and Many Londoners now face far longer affordable homes, the Government residents’ organisations – and together housing associations to build. and more expensive commutes, and has shifted the definition of affordable we will set out what we need from • Homes for London Living Rent businesses struggle to recruit and housing to include homes that cost up central government to enable us to – a new type of home for people struggling to rent privately, retain the people they need to grow to £450,000 to buy, or 80 per cent of build more homes. where rents are based on one- and prosper. market rent. Homes for Londoners will bring third of average local wages. That’s why, if I am elected Mayor, my Homes for Londoners to rent together all the Mayor’s housing, • Homes for first-time buyers to single biggest priority will be to build and buy planning, funding, and land powers ‘part-buy part-rent’, where on thousands more homes every year, My housing priority is to get London alongside new experts to raise mayoral and other public land my aim is to cut their cost and for you, your family and your friends – building the homes and communities investment, assemble land, make give first dibs to Londoners who and to give first dibs to Londoners on we need, with a target of half of all sure Londoners get a fair deal from have been stuck renting for new homes. Our capital needs more the new homes that are built across developers, and commission and over five years – especially in than 50,000 new homes a year – yet London being genuinely affordable to construct new homes. outer London where the biggest the current Mayor has built barely half rent or buy. I’ll break the homebuilding

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 19 03/03/2016 14:24 Homes for Londoners will drive • Long-term planning for new and • Support councils to enforce falls in homeownership have up homebuilding by: affordable homes tied in with new clear, new rules to maximise been seen. transport infrastructure, including the affordable housing in new • Building new homes on land • Homes to buy where we can proposals such as Docklands Light developments, with greater give Londoners first dibs – owned by the Mayor, including Railway extensions, the Bakerloo transparency around viability building on brownfield public Transport for London land, and line extension, and Crossrail 2. assessments, and the option to set land and using the Mayor’s bidding to develop other public planning powers to their fullest local affordable housing targets. sector land - with a proportion of I’ll work with boroughs to deliver on my extent. homes on the capital’s NHS sites target of half of all new homes being • Work with councils, housing This stands in contrast to the aimed at health service workers. genuinely affordable – a target that associations and co-operatives to Conservative Government’s many Labour boroughs have met in help them invest their land and definition of affordable housing, • Supporting housing associations, recent years despite being undermined resources effectively, including which includes: which build 40 per cent of all by the Mayor. I’ll seek out new sources right-to-buy receipts and resources • So-called ‘Affordable Rent’ London’s new homes, and which of investment and use planning powers from smaller organisations. homes in which tenants pay up have committed to double their to 80 per cent of private market effectively to raise the number of new construction pipelines from 90,000 • Using public land creatively to rent. and affordable homes London builds. to 180,000 homes. generate future income. • ‘Starter homes’ to buy costing I will: up to £450,000. • Use City Hall as a platform to • Set clear guidelines for which attract institutional investors, developments the Mayor will ‘call pension and other investment in’, including where planning has funds to finance homes for long- stalled, and where opportunities term, secure rent. to deliver more new or affordable • Explore incentives for businesses homes are being missed. to provide investment in new homes which could benefit their workforce.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 20 03/03/2016 14:24 Homes for Londoners will drive • Long-term planning for new and • Support councils to enforce falls in homeownership have up homebuilding by: affordable homes tied in with new clear, new rules to maximise been seen. transport infrastructure, including the affordable housing in new • Building new homes on land • Homes to buy where we can proposals such as Docklands Light developments, with greater give Londoners first dibs – owned by the Mayor, including Railway extensions, the Bakerloo transparency around viability building on brownfield public Transport for London land, and line extension, and Crossrail 2. assessments, and the option to set land and using the Mayor’s bidding to develop other public planning powers to their fullest local affordable housing targets. sector land - with a proportion of I’ll work with boroughs to deliver on my extent. homes on the capital’s NHS sites target of half of all new homes being • Work with councils, housing This stands in contrast to the aimed at health service workers. genuinely affordable – a target that associations and co-operatives to Conservative Government’s many Labour boroughs have met in help them invest their land and definition of affordable housing, • Supporting housing associations, recent years despite being undermined resources effectively, including which includes: which build 40 per cent of all by the Mayor. I’ll seek out new sources right-to-buy receipts and resources • So-called ‘Affordable Rent’ London’s new homes, and which of investment and use planning powers from smaller organisations. homes in which tenants pay up have committed to double their to 80 per cent of private market effectively to raise the number of new construction pipelines from 90,000 • Using public land creatively to rent. and affordable homes London builds. to 180,000 homes. generate future income. • ‘Starter homes’ to buy costing I will: up to £450,000. • Use City Hall as a platform to • Set clear guidelines for which attract institutional investors, developments the Mayor will ‘call pension and other investment in’, including where planning has funds to finance homes for long- stalled, and where opportunities term, secure rent. to deliver more new or affordable • Explore incentives for businesses homes are being missed. to provide investment in new homes which could benefit their workforce.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 21 03/03/2016 14:24 I will fight Londoners’ corner, working I know from my visits across the city • Name and shame rogue landlords resident support, based on full with anyone who puts the capital first. that more and more Londoners are and ensure tenants have access to and transparent consultation, and I’ll work with the alliance of all those finding it increasingly difficult to find this information online. that demolition is only permitted who want to get London building to somewhere to rent that is affordable. where it does not result in a loss of Alongside a modernised private rented secure the best deal for London from Many face letting agency fees that are social housing, or where all other sector, London needs to protect its the national government, arguing for too high and property standards that options have been exhausted, with social housing as a vital asset. I am more devolution to London, are too low. Most landlords treat their full rights to return for displaced opposed to the Government’s plans to including powers to: tenants well – but I’m determined we tenants and a fair deal for raise rents for working families and to will improve Londoners’ experience of leaseholders. • Invest more in new homes for force the sell off of council homes to private renting. Londoners, with prudential the highest bidder, which will lead to a Many Londoners already own their borrowing powers for councils to I will fight for the Mayor and London hollowing out of the capital, damaging own homes but some struggle to meet invest in new affordable housing, councils to have a greater say in our social mix. London boroughs their housing costs and maintain their and the Mayor taking the lead strengthening renters’ rights over and housing associations should be property as they would wish. I want to developing public land. tenancy lengths, rent rises, and the investing money from the right-to- support existing homeowners through quality of accommodation. I’ll work buy and other sources in new social measures including: • Exercise ‘use it or lose it’ powers to with councils, landlords, tenants, and housing in the local area and other make sure developers who have • Investment in older homes to business to improve the private rented genuinely affordable homes in London. planning permission build homes make them more energy-efficient sector for both renters and for good That’s why I oppose the Government’s and do not land-bank. as part of the ‘100 per cent London’ landlords by: plans and why I’ll fight to protect campaign to switch London over to Supporting renters and Londoners from the worst effects of • Setting up a London-wide not- clean energy. homeowners their policies. for-profit lettings agency for good Many Londoners want to buy a home • Working with London boroughs landlords, building on the work I will: of their own. Many others want and to ensure leaseholders can access that councils have started, and need social rent to live in London • Work with housing associations to high-quality advice on service ending rip-off fees for renters. affordably. I will do what I can to help keep their rents down, and help charges and leasehold extension. Londoners fulfil their aspirations. But it • Working alongside boroughs councils to protect tenants unable is also the case that more than one in to promote landlord licensing to afford rents up to market rates four Londoners rent privately, and that schemes to drive up standards, under ‘pay-to-stay’ rules if they go the private rented sector will continue and make the case to government ahead. to grow. for London-wide landlord licensing. • Require that estate regeneration only takes place where there is

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 22 03/03/2016 14:24 I will fight Londoners’ corner, working I know from my visits across the city • Name and shame rogue landlords resident support, based on full with anyone who puts the capital first. that more and more Londoners are and ensure tenants have access to and transparent consultation, and I’ll work with the alliance of all those finding it increasingly difficult to find this information online. that demolition is only permitted who want to get London building to somewhere to rent that is affordable. where it does not result in a loss of Alongside a modernised private rented secure the best deal for London from Many face letting agency fees that are social housing, or where all other sector, London needs to protect its the national government, arguing for too high and property standards that options have been exhausted, with social housing as a vital asset. I am more devolution to London, are too low. Most landlords treat their full rights to return for displaced opposed to the Government’s plans to including powers to: tenants well – but I’m determined we tenants and a fair deal for raise rents for working families and to will improve Londoners’ experience of leaseholders. • Invest more in new homes for force the sell off of council homes to private renting. Londoners, with prudential the highest bidder, which will lead to a Many Londoners already own their borrowing powers for councils to I will fight for the Mayor and London hollowing out of the capital, damaging own homes but some struggle to meet invest in new affordable housing, councils to have a greater say in our social mix. London boroughs their housing costs and maintain their and the Mayor taking the lead strengthening renters’ rights over and housing associations should be property as they would wish. I want to developing public land. tenancy lengths, rent rises, and the investing money from the right-to- support existing homeowners through quality of accommodation. I’ll work buy and other sources in new social measures including: • Exercise ‘use it or lose it’ powers to with councils, landlords, tenants, and housing in the local area and other make sure developers who have • Investment in older homes to business to improve the private rented genuinely affordable homes in London. planning permission build homes make them more energy-efficient sector for both renters and for good That’s why I oppose the Government’s and do not land-bank. as part of the ‘100 per cent London’ landlords by: plans and why I’ll fight to protect campaign to switch London over to Supporting renters and Londoners from the worst effects of • Setting up a London-wide not- clean energy. homeowners their policies. for-profit lettings agency for good Many Londoners want to buy a home • Working with London boroughs landlords, building on the work I will: of their own. Many others want and to ensure leaseholders can access that councils have started, and need social rent to live in London • Work with housing associations to high-quality advice on service ending rip-off fees for renters. affordably. I will do what I can to help keep their rents down, and help charges and leasehold extension. Londoners fulfil their aspirations. But it • Working alongside boroughs councils to protect tenants unable is also the case that more than one in to promote landlord licensing to afford rents up to market rates four Londoners rent privately, and that schemes to drive up standards, under ‘pay-to-stay’ rules if they go the private rented sector will continue and make the case to government ahead. to grow. for London-wide landlord licensing. • Require that estate regeneration only takes place where there is

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 23 03/03/2016 14:24 Homelessness Planning for the future • Protect the green belt, green Rough-sleeping has doubled in the As London’s population grows it is vital spaces and play spaces, prioritising last five years, and the number of that we look at developing new forms development on brownfield sites, homeless children living in temporary of housing to meet the future needs and developing appropriate design accommodation has risen by a quarter of the capital, such as community land principles to build up areas around in the last three years. I’m determined trusts, co-housing, and housing which town centres across the capital. to tackle the scourge of homelessness. allows older Londoners to downsize. It is important that we do more to • Support councils in bringing I will: protect the character of London’s empty homes back into use, using • Set up a ‘No Nights Sleeping Rough’ communities while delivering the new compulsory purchase orders initiative – a London-wide taskforce and affordable homes we need to cope where necessary, and developing to oversee the implementation of with a rising population. I will put good planning rules to control ‘buy-to- the Mayor’s rough sleeping work design and sustainability at the heart of leave’. and funding priorities. the London Plan. • Retain in the London Plan targets • Focus on help for young people I will: for all new homes to meet Lifetime facing homelessness, who are Homes standards and 10 per cent • Amend the London Plan to give increasingly caught in a trap as of new homes to be wheelchair greater protection for residents they struggle to find somewhere to accessible affected by large-scale basement move on to, including prevention excavation works, and include • Improve planning and design measures such as family mediation stronger policies to ensure tall policies to offer older Londoners and steps to help young people buildings respect the character more choice, whether they are into work. of existing neighbourhoods. active older people, downsizers or • Coordinate councils’ efforts to find in need of specialist and extra care • Support ‘tenure-blind’ stable private rented housing for homes, and by making it easier development, avoiding the use of those in need who are not able to for owner-occupiers to adapt their ‘poor doors’, so that the access and move into social housing, instead homes when they want others, communal areas for affordable of desperate boroughs being including carers and lodgers, to live housing are indistinguishable from forced to outbid each other for with them. those serving other homes. homes from landlords.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 24 03/03/2016 14:24 Homelessness Planning for the future • Protect the green belt, green Rough-sleeping has doubled in the As London’s population grows it is vital spaces and play spaces, prioritising last five years, and the number of that we look at developing new forms development on brownfield sites, homeless children living in temporary of housing to meet the future needs and developing appropriate design accommodation has risen by a quarter of the capital, such as community land principles to build up areas around in the last three years. I’m determined trusts, co-housing, and housing which town centres across the capital. to tackle the scourge of homelessness. allows older Londoners to downsize. It is important that we do more to • Support councils in bringing I will: protect the character of London’s empty homes back into use, using • Set up a ‘No Nights Sleeping Rough’ communities while delivering the new compulsory purchase orders initiative – a London-wide taskforce and affordable homes we need to cope where necessary, and developing to oversee the implementation of with a rising population. I will put good planning rules to control ‘buy-to- the Mayor’s rough sleeping work design and sustainability at the heart of leave’. and funding priorities. the London Plan. • Retain in the London Plan targets • Focus on help for young people I will: for all new homes to meet Lifetime facing homelessness, who are Homes standards and 10 per cent • Amend the London Plan to give increasingly caught in a trap as of new homes to be wheelchair greater protection for residents they struggle to find somewhere to accessible affected by large-scale basement move on to, including prevention excavation works, and include • Improve planning and design measures such as family mediation stronger policies to ensure tall policies to offer older Londoners and steps to help young people buildings respect the character more choice, whether they are into work. of existing neighbourhoods. active older people, downsizers or • Coordinate councils’ efforts to find in need of specialist and extra care • Support ‘tenure-blind’ stable private rented housing for homes, and by making it easier development, avoiding the use of those in need who are not able to for owner-occupiers to adapt their ‘poor doors’, so that the access and move into social housing, instead homes when they want others, communal areas for affordable of desperate boroughs being including carers and lodgers, to live housing are indistinguishable from forced to outbid each other for with them. those serving other homes. homes from landlords.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 27 03/03/2016 14:24 A MODERN AND AFFORDABLE TRANSPORT NETWORK London’s transport has always been a big part of my life – my dad drove the number 44 bus. And more recently, I served as a Transport Minister in the last Labour Government, working on schemes such as Crossrail. But above all, like most Londoners, I’ve relied on it throughout my life to get me around. We can’t afford to let the cost of travel become a barrier to work. That’s why it’s vital we put a hold on the rocketing fares of the last eight years.

network while keeping fares down. • Introduce ‘The Hopper’ – a new We live in a world-class city, and my one-hour bus ticket allowing ambition is to create a transport Keeping fares affordable unlimited changes within an hour, network which offers commuters a Londoners currently pay some of the so that a £1.50 single ticket pays world-class and affordable experience. highest public transport fares of any for a full journey. major city. For many, that means less To ensure this happens, I’ll personally money for food, to clothe their children • Continue to support both chair Transport for London, working or heat their homes. This is why I am Oyster and contactless payment with businesses and boroughs to plan committed to freeze fares for the next card methods and ensure fare the transport capacity we need for four years. I’ll turn the corner on the structures remain equal so that London’s future, while modernising soaring fares of the last eight years, nobody is disadvantaged by TfL, turning it into a more efficient, while pay growth catches up. choosing either payment method. and more profitable public sector organisation.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 28 03/03/2016 14:24 A MODERN AND AFFORDABLE TRANSPORT NETWORK London’s transport has always been a big part of my life – my dad drove the number 44 bus. And more recently, I served as a Transport Minister in the last Labour Government, working on schemes such as Crossrail. But above all, like most Londoners, I’ve relied on it throughout my life to get me around. We can’t afford to let the cost of travel become a barrier to work. That’s why it’s vital we put a hold on the rocketing fares of the last eight years.

London’s transport infrastructure is at We can learn much from the example the heart of our city’s economy. But set by publicly owned transport the short-termism of the past has left companies in France, Germany and growth in demand outstripping growth the Netherlands which run services in capacity. Meanwhile, Londoners commercially in other cities and I will: • Guarantee the Freedom Pass already struggling to afford housing countries – including our own. I will and the over-60s Oyster card, • Freeze all TfL fares and charges for and household bills face some of the use the savings and profits that a along with all other existing the Mayor’s cycle hire scheme for highest public transport fares modernised TfL delivers to continue concessionary fares schemes. four years in Europe. investment in new capacity on our network while keeping fares down. • Introduce ‘The Hopper’ – a new We live in a world-class city, and my one-hour bus ticket allowing ambition is to create a transport Keeping fares affordable unlimited changes within an hour, network which offers commuters a Londoners currently pay some of the so that a £1.50 single ticket pays world-class and affordable experience. highest public transport fares of any for a full journey. major city. For many, that means less To ensure this happens, I’ll personally money for food, to clothe their children • Continue to support both chair Transport for London, working or heat their homes. This is why I am Oyster and contactless payment with businesses and boroughs to plan committed to freeze fares for the next card methods and ensure fare the transport capacity we need for four years. I’ll turn the corner on the structures remain equal so that London’s future, while modernising soaring fares of the last eight years, nobody is disadvantaged by TfL, turning it into a more efficient, while pay growth catches up. choosing either payment method. and more profitable public sector organisation.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 29 03/03/2016 14:24 A safe capital for cycling and • Promote safer, cleaner lorries – FUNDING THE FARES FREEZE walking working with the boroughs and My plan to freeze transport fares and waste and reducing the My aim is to make London a byword for using City Hall procurement to will be funded by making TfL a overuse of consultants and cycling around the world – with a plan set new safety standards, moving more efficient and profitable agency staff. TfL spent £383 to make cycling and walking safer and towards City Hall and TfL contracts operation, not by cuts to spending million on consultants and agency easier in the capital. Although a great specifying ‘direct-vision’ lorries. on better services and more staff last year – a figure which deal of progress has been made, we capacity. I will aim to halve. • Review the Safer Junction still have a lot of work to do to protect Programmes to identify and TfL is a vast organisation, and TfL will explore the generation of cyclists and pedestrians from collisions. commence priority improvements does many things well. But it new income streams by: I’ll continue the good work that has is also inefficient and flabby – at more of London’s major been done by the last two Mayors spending hundreds of millions • Establishing a trading arm that accident blackspots. of pounds each year on agency can run bus and other local on cycling, and increase the pace of and consultancy fees, failing to transport services and sell TfL’s change. • Deliver more cycle storage and implement shared procurement expertise, at home and abroad. parking, using the London Plan I will: and functions between its surface The revenues it makes will be to ensure provision in new used to keep fares down in and underground transport • Increase the proportion of TfL’s developments, while working with divisions, and allocating public London just as foreign state- budget spent on cycling. London boroughs to deliver on- money to Boris Johnson’s vanity owned transport firms currently take profits made here to street secure provision. schemes such as the cable car. • Continue the Cycle Superhighway subsidise their services. The current Mayor has avoided Programme, investing in new • Work to break down some of the challenging TfL to make the • Put spare TfL land to better routes and learning the lessons city’s physical barriers, such as by savings which other public sector use, retaining ownership while organisations have been forced to from earlier schemes, with a focus backing the Rotherhithe-Canary building affordable and market make over recent years. on segregated provision. Wharf cycle and pedestrian bridge. homes, as well as commercial I will reverse that approach. space, generating a long-term • Prioritise Quietways – continuous and secure revenue stream. I will: cycling routes running through And I will end Boris Johnson’s parks, alongside waterways and • Merge engineering functions practice of using Londoners’ money down quiet backstreets – to within TfL – ensuring shared to fund expensive vanity projects – broaden London’s safe cycle procurement and office functions such as the cable car and the failing save millions each year. network, while completing the roll ‘new Routemaster’ buses. out of current town-centre cycling • Deliver major efficiency savings improvement plans, and beginning within TfL - cutting duplication a new round of schemes.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 30 03/03/2016 14:24 A safe capital for cycling and • Promote safer, cleaner lorries – FUNDING THE FARES FREEZE walking working with the boroughs and My plan to freeze transport fares and waste and reducing the My aim is to make London a byword for using City Hall procurement to will be funded by making TfL a overuse of consultants and cycling around the world – with a plan set new safety standards, moving more efficient and profitable agency staff. TfL spent £383 to make cycling and walking safer and towards City Hall and TfL contracts operation, not by cuts to spending million on consultants and agency easier in the capital. Although a great specifying ‘direct-vision’ lorries. on better services and more staff last year – a figure which deal of progress has been made, we capacity. I will aim to halve. • Review the Safer Junction still have a lot of work to do to protect Programmes to identify and TfL is a vast organisation, and TfL will explore the generation of cyclists and pedestrians from collisions. commence priority improvements does many things well. But it new income streams by: I’ll continue the good work that has is also inefficient and flabby – at more of London’s major been done by the last two Mayors spending hundreds of millions • Establishing a trading arm that accident blackspots. of pounds each year on agency can run bus and other local on cycling, and increase the pace of and consultancy fees, failing to transport services and sell TfL’s change. • Deliver more cycle storage and implement shared procurement expertise, at home and abroad. parking, using the London Plan I will: and functions between its surface The revenues it makes will be to ensure provision in new used to keep fares down in and underground transport • Increase the proportion of TfL’s developments, while working with divisions, and allocating public London just as foreign state- budget spent on cycling. London boroughs to deliver on- money to Boris Johnson’s vanity owned transport firms currently take profits made here to street secure provision. schemes such as the cable car. • Continue the Cycle Superhighway subsidise their services. The current Mayor has avoided Programme, investing in new • Work to break down some of the challenging TfL to make the • Put spare TfL land to better routes and learning the lessons city’s physical barriers, such as by savings which other public sector use, retaining ownership while organisations have been forced to from earlier schemes, with a focus backing the Rotherhithe-Canary building affordable and market make over recent years. on segregated provision. Wharf cycle and pedestrian bridge. homes, as well as commercial I will reverse that approach. space, generating a long-term • Prioritise Quietways – continuous and secure revenue stream. I will: cycling routes running through And I will end Boris Johnson’s parks, alongside waterways and • Merge engineering functions practice of using Londoners’ money down quiet backstreets – to within TfL – ensuring shared to fund expensive vanity projects – broaden London’s safe cycle procurement and office functions such as the cable car and the failing save millions each year. network, while completing the roll ‘new Routemaster’ buses. out of current town-centre cycling • Deliver major efficiency savings improvement plans, and beginning within TfL - cutting duplication a new round of schemes.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 31 03/03/2016 14:24 BUSINESS, GROWTH AND PROSPERITY • Plan the next major infrastructure and enabling the new TfL projects for the long term – such as commercial arm to bid. a potential Crossrail 3, new orbital • Deliver the Night Tube if Boris links for outer London, DLR and Johnson fails to get it up and tram extensions, and new river running by May, ensuring we crossings for East London - while implement this much-needed new exploring additional sources of service in the most efficient way funding for major projects. possible. • Work to secure the proposed • Reduce the number of days lost Bakerloo line extension to to strike action, by maintaining Lewisham and beyond. better industrial relations and But there’s more I’m determined to Planning for our future needs Better services across the abandoning Boris Johnson’s do to make getting around safer for As London grows, we need to take a network policy of refusing to meet with everyone - walkers and cyclists, as well long term view of our future transport All Londoners deserve world-class representatives of TfL transport as motorists – and particularly for those needs. By 2050, the capital’s population services, whatever mode of transport workers. with disabilities which make negotiating is expected to grow to 11 million – a they use. Improving our network is London’s streets that much harder. third larger than it is today. That means • Ensure London’s transport system about investing in services, and also the next Mayor must start planning and is accessible to all users, with the I will: about innovating. I won’t be afraid to delivering the infrastructure and new next fleet of buses designed with challenge the old ways of doing things. • Establish safe walking routes, to capacity for the future straight away – sufficient space for wheelchair give children cleaner and safer and making sure that the plans deliver I will: users, and a more ambitious journeys to school, avoiding busy the highest possible gains in terms of approach to step-free access in • Push for TfL to take over and polluted roads where possible. new homes for Londoners. London Underground and TfL-run responsibility for more commuter stations. • Reduce street and pavement I will: routes, building on the success clutter on TfL roads and support of the London Overground and • Examine the impact of ticket office • Get Crossrail 2 off the ground, urban realm improvements across the successful transfer of Greater closures and explore what could using my experience as a Minister town centres. Anglia services to TfL Rail. be done at key locations to ensure responsible for the original everyone is able to purchase • Encourage the roll out of 20mph Crossrail to secure the funding • Encourage more competition in tickets and access the information zones across the city by backing package, and ensure the route the bus sector, making it easier they need to get around London, the ‘20’s Plenty For Us’ campaign. enables the building of thousands for not-for-profit and mutual while keeping passengers safe. of new homes. operations to win contracts

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 32 03/03/2016 14:24 BUSINESS, GROWTH AND PROSPERITY • Plan the next major infrastructure and enabling the new TfL projects for the long term – such as commercial arm to bid. a potential Crossrail 3, new orbital • Deliver the Night Tube if Boris links for outer London, DLR and Johnson fails to get it up and tram extensions, and new river running by May, ensuring we crossings for East London - while implement this much-needed new exploring additional sources of service in the most efficient way funding for major projects. possible. • Work to secure the proposed • Reduce the number of days lost Bakerloo line extension to to strike action, by maintaining Lewisham and beyond. better industrial relations and But there’s more I’m determined to Planning for our future needs Better services across the abandoning Boris Johnson’s do to make getting around safer for As London grows, we need to take a network policy of refusing to meet with everyone - walkers and cyclists, as well long term view of our future transport All Londoners deserve world-class representatives of TfL transport as motorists – and particularly for those needs. By 2050, the capital’s population services, whatever mode of transport workers. with disabilities which make negotiating is expected to grow to 11 million – a they use. Improving our network is London’s streets that much harder. third larger than it is today. That means • Ensure London’s transport system about investing in services, and also the next Mayor must start planning and is accessible to all users, with the I will: about innovating. I won’t be afraid to delivering the infrastructure and new next fleet of buses designed with challenge the old ways of doing things. • Establish safe walking routes, to capacity for the future straight away – sufficient space for wheelchair give children cleaner and safer and making sure that the plans deliver I will: users, and a more ambitious journeys to school, avoiding busy the highest possible gains in terms of approach to step-free access in • Push for TfL to take over and polluted roads where possible. new homes for Londoners. London Underground and TfL-run responsibility for more commuter stations. • Reduce street and pavement I will: routes, building on the success clutter on TfL roads and support of the London Overground and • Examine the impact of ticket office • Get Crossrail 2 off the ground, urban realm improvements across the successful transfer of Greater closures and explore what could using my experience as a Minister town centres. Anglia services to TfL Rail. be done at key locations to ensure responsible for the original everyone is able to purchase • Encourage the roll out of 20mph Crossrail to secure the funding • Encourage more competition in tickets and access the information zones across the city by backing package, and ensure the route the bus sector, making it easier they need to get around London, the ‘20’s Plenty For Us’ campaign. enables the building of thousands for not-for-profit and mutual while keeping passengers safe. of new homes. operations to win contracts

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 33 03/03/2016 14:24 support housing development in • Ensure that driver safety • Support Car Clubs as a means of An internationally north London and deliver faster standards are rigorously reducing congestion and demand connected capital journeys to Cambridge. enforced across the black cab for parking. Our airports are vital to our prosperity, and private hire industries. and as a former Transport Minister An iconic taxi service • Maintain the Congestion Charge at I understand how urgently our city’s As the world’s greatest city it is • Retain the exclusive right of its current level. economy needs additional aviation absolutely right that we have, and licensed black taxi drivers to use • Continue to allocate resources to capacity in order to stay competitive continue to have, the best and bus lanes and ply for hire. councils to spend through their with other major world cities. This must most qualified cabbies in the world. Keeping London’s roads moving Local Implementation Plans, be done without further breaching the London’s black taxi drivers are Congestion on London’s streets on projects which support my limits on pollution that are so vital to highly trained and properly checked continues to cause real problems for transport strategy. protecting our health. to a high safety standard, driving many motorists, and is a real drag on wheelchair accessible vehicles, with • Encourage greater use of the I will: business competitiveness. the incredible geographical recall river to transport passengers and • Make the case for a second and sense of direction that only I will: freight. runway at Gatwick, as the those with The Knowledge have. • Direct TfL to work with utility cheapest, greenest and most With people like this at the wheel, companies to coordinate viable option presented by the it’s understandable that the London maintenance and upgrading of Airports Commission. black cab is an icon known around infrastructure, in order to ensure the world and a source of pride for • Oppose a third runway that the same sections of road are Londoners. at Heathrow and, if the not repeatedly subjected to works. Government chooses to pursue I will: • Prioritise delivery of new river this option, continue to call for • Ensure that the markets for crossings in the east of the city. a new runway at Gatwick as a licensed taxi drivers and for more viable, cheaper and easier- • Seek additional powers to regulate private hire drivers are fair - to-build alternative. rickshaws on the city’s streets. with special privileges built in, as • Work to make better use of they always have been, for those • Work with businesses, local existing capacity, fighting to who become a licensed London authorities and freight companies secure the upgrade of the West taxi driver. to reduce the number of large Anglian rail line in Network lorries on the city’s roads, Rail’s next investment period, to particularly at the busiest times. improve journeys to Stansted,

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 34 03/03/2016 14:24 support housing development in • Ensure that driver safety • Support Car Clubs as a means of An internationally north London and deliver faster standards are rigorously reducing congestion and demand connected capital journeys to Cambridge. enforced across the black cab for parking. Our airports are vital to our prosperity, and private hire industries. and as a former Transport Minister An iconic taxi service • Maintain the Congestion Charge at I understand how urgently our city’s As the world’s greatest city it is • Retain the exclusive right of its current level. economy needs additional aviation absolutely right that we have, and licensed black taxi drivers to use • Continue to allocate resources to capacity in order to stay competitive continue to have, the best and bus lanes and ply for hire. councils to spend through their with other major world cities. This must most qualified cabbies in the world. Keeping London’s roads moving Local Implementation Plans, be done without further breaching the London’s black taxi drivers are Congestion on London’s streets on projects which support my limits on pollution that are so vital to highly trained and properly checked continues to cause real problems for transport strategy. protecting our health. to a high safety standard, driving many motorists, and is a real drag on wheelchair accessible vehicles, with • Encourage greater use of the I will: business competitiveness. the incredible geographical recall river to transport passengers and • Make the case for a second and sense of direction that only I will: freight. runway at Gatwick, as the those with The Knowledge have. • Direct TfL to work with utility cheapest, greenest and most With people like this at the wheel, companies to coordinate viable option presented by the it’s understandable that the London maintenance and upgrading of Airports Commission. black cab is an icon known around infrastructure, in order to ensure the world and a source of pride for • Oppose a third runway that the same sections of road are Londoners. at Heathrow and, if the not repeatedly subjected to works. Government chooses to pursue I will: • Prioritise delivery of new river this option, continue to call for • Ensure that the markets for crossings in the east of the city. a new runway at Gatwick as a licensed taxi drivers and for more viable, cheaper and easier- • Seek additional powers to regulate private hire drivers are fair - to-build alternative. rickshaws on the city’s streets. with special privileges built in, as • Work to make better use of they always have been, for those • Work with businesses, local existing capacity, fighting to who become a licensed London authorities and freight companies secure the upgrade of the West taxi driver. to reduce the number of large Anglian rail line in Network lorries on the city’s roads, Rail’s next investment period, to particularly at the busiest times. improve journeys to Stansted,

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We all have friends, neighbours and colleagues whose lives have been blighted by crime. And many Londoners are rightly worried that cuts in policing are making our streets and neighbourhoods less safe.

The Conservatives have left London preparedness for a major incident or a less safe city, and dangerously attack. vulnerable, because our police force is London faces a real and constant spread so thinly. Cuts to the policing threat from the spread of extremism, budget under the Tories have seen 63 and I’m concerned that, right now, of our local police stations close, and not enough is being done to root 23 per cent of our frontline policing out and stop the people who are extremism or planning attacks upon the role of officers as a visible presence lost. Most of the capital’s spreading vile ideologies and our city are made more difficult. local presence, helping to prevent neighbourhood policing capacity – the promoting terror. Alongside ensuring So I will ensure that building trust and detect crime, and as the local officers you see walking your local our uniformed services are prepared across London, with all communities, eyes and ears our security services streets – has been lost. for the worst case scenario of another is a core priority for the Met over the need to identify the spread of On the Tories’ watch, there’s been terrorist attack on London, these coming years. extremism at its roots. a worrying rise in violent crime, are undoubtedly the biggest security Keeping our communities safer • Commit to tackling violence particularly knife crime. Hate crime is challenges London faces - and I do As Mayor, keeping you, your family, against women and girls, including also on the rise, particularly troubling not believe the current Government’s and your community safe will be my prioritising a greater police in a city known for its openness strategy is delivering. top priority. That means ensuring presence on public transport and tolerance. Too many victims of Trust and confidence are the that our police and fire services have at key times to clamp down on crime are treated as an afterthought cornerstones of the police’s legitimacy the right priorities and resources, sexual assault, zero tolerance of or ignored altogether. For too long, in the eyes of the community – and particularly at a time when the domestic and sexual violence and London’s emergency services have the basis on which members of the Government is starving them of the working closely with public sector been planned on the basis of cuts public feel comfortable in coming funding they need. and voluntary organisations on rather than Londoners’ needs – as a forward with evidence and intelligence. developing better support for result, fire services have been cut so I will: Without such information, the victims of sexual and domestic much that response times are now a detection and prevention of crime, the • Ensure that the restoration of real violence. danger to the safety of Londoners and challenging of gang activity, and even neighbourhood policing is the top there are serious questions about our the identification of those spreading priority for the Met, maintaining

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 39 03/03/2016 14:24 • Develop a cyber-security strategy, We need to look at both frontline • Ensure that school liaison officers Challenging gangs, knife crime led by the Chief Digital Officer I will and control room functions, continue to work closely with and violence appoint, working with the police and consider the impact and schools, and continue to back the For many communities, gang activity, and security services to ensure effectiveness of outsourcing. City Safe Haven initiative. the related threat of violence, and in Londoners and businesses have • Support the police to do their job particular knife crime, are a shocking • Sell Boris Johnson’s water cannon the information and resources efficiently and effectively, and daily reality. No Londoner deserves to and spend the receipts on youth they need to stay safe online. make best use of officers’ time so live in fear, and nor does any young projects aimed at decreasing gang • Undertake a full review of the that they can spend more time on Londoner deserve to be sucked into crime. resources required by the London the front line. I will invest in new the gang lifestyle for lack of hope, • Fight for further powers over youth Fire Brigade, with the aim of technology that enables officers opportunity or a strong role model. justice, probation and courts, so ensuring the service is fully to access the information and I will challenge gang culture and knife that the Mayor has a joined-up role equipped for the challenges ahead, data they need at their fingertips, crime head on. across the justice system in cutting not only for dealing with and and to record reports and witness I will: crime and reoffending. preventing fires but also coping statements speedily without with major civil contingencies such officers having to return to a • Implement a tough knife crime Stopping the spread of as a terrorist attack or a flood. police station. strategy that focuses resources on extremism tackling the city’s gangs, cracking Rooting out all forms of extremism down on shops illegally selling and radicalisation is crucial if we are knives and working on tougher to keep our city free from the threat of community payback for those terrorism. caught with knives, in addition to I will: jail time and traditional sentencing. • Lead a renewed push to tackle • Work closely with local authorities, extremism and radicalisation in schools and youth services to London, promoting the integration develop anti-gang strategies, of different communities, and while working with community supporting and empowering organisations to further youth mainstream Muslims in speaking engagement, building upon a out and challenging extremism. review of the anti-gang Matrix system.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 40 03/03/2016 14:24 • Develop a cyber-security strategy, We need to look at both frontline • Ensure that school liaison officers Challenging gangs, knife crime led by the Chief Digital Officer I will and control room functions, continue to work closely with and violence appoint, working with the police and consider the impact and schools, and continue to back the For many communities, gang activity, and security services to ensure effectiveness of outsourcing. City Safe Haven initiative. the related threat of violence, and in Londoners and businesses have • Support the police to do their job particular knife crime, are a shocking • Sell Boris Johnson’s water cannon the information and resources efficiently and effectively, and daily reality. No Londoner deserves to and spend the receipts on youth they need to stay safe online. make best use of officers’ time so live in fear, and nor does any young projects aimed at decreasing gang • Undertake a full review of the that they can spend more time on Londoner deserve to be sucked into crime. resources required by the London the front line. I will invest in new the gang lifestyle for lack of hope, • Fight for further powers over youth Fire Brigade, with the aim of technology that enables officers opportunity or a strong role model. justice, probation and courts, so ensuring the service is fully to access the information and I will challenge gang culture and knife that the Mayor has a joined-up role equipped for the challenges ahead, data they need at their fingertips, crime head on. across the justice system in cutting not only for dealing with and and to record reports and witness I will: crime and reoffending. preventing fires but also coping statements speedily without with major civil contingencies such officers having to return to a • Implement a tough knife crime Stopping the spread of as a terrorist attack or a flood. police station. strategy that focuses resources on extremism tackling the city’s gangs, cracking Rooting out all forms of extremism down on shops illegally selling and radicalisation is crucial if we are knives and working on tougher to keep our city free from the threat of community payback for those terrorism. caught with knives, in addition to I will: jail time and traditional sentencing. • Lead a renewed push to tackle • Work closely with local authorities, extremism and radicalisation in schools and youth services to London, promoting the integration develop anti-gang strategies, of different communities, and while working with community supporting and empowering organisations to further youth mainstream Muslims in speaking engagement, building upon a out and challenging extremism. review of the anti-gang Matrix system.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 41 03/03/2016 14:24 • Ensure that our frontline, • Ensure that stop and search is • Improve the experiences of neighbourhood police have used in an evidence-based and victims of crime by introducing sufficient resources to do their job targeted manner. When used an online Track My Crime online and capture the vital information in such a way, stop and search portal to give victims information our security services rely on. is a valuable tool in the fight on progress on their case, and against crime – but when used appoint an independent Victims • Initiate an urgent review of the indiscriminately it can harm trust Commissioner to stand up for Met’s armed response capability in the police. victims across the capital. to ensure the city is able to cope with the threat of major terrorism • Roll out the use of body cameras incidents. worn by the police, encouraging community confidence in policing Strengthening community and and the capturing of crucial police relations evidence. Too many communities and individual Londoners view the police with • Direct the Met to adopt a strict suspicion. This makes people within zero tolerance approach to those communities less likely to report hate crime – be it on the basis crimes or pass on information about of someone’s age, sexuality, gangs, or identify those who spread gender, religion, race, nationality hatred or extremism. We can do more or disability – and ensure officers to build better relations between have the resources and training communities and the police, they need. In particular I will ensuring bonds of trust are developed. challenge the appalling increase in homophobic, anti-Semitic, I will: and Islamophobic hate crimes. • Promote a police force that looks like the communities it is charged with keeping safe, with the aim of having a Met that is as diverse as London’s population.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 42 03/03/2016 14:24 • Ensure that our frontline, • Ensure that stop and search is • Improve the experiences of neighbourhood police have used in an evidence-based and victims of crime by introducing sufficient resources to do their job targeted manner. When used an online Track My Crime online and capture the vital information in such a way, stop and search portal to give victims information our security services rely on. is a valuable tool in the fight on progress on their case, and against crime – but when used appoint an independent Victims • Initiate an urgent review of the indiscriminately it can harm trust Commissioner to stand up for Met’s armed response capability in the police. victims across the capital. to ensure the city is able to cope with the threat of major terrorism • Roll out the use of body cameras incidents. worn by the police, encouraging community confidence in policing Strengthening community and and the capturing of crucial police relations evidence. Too many communities and individual Londoners view the police with • Direct the Met to adopt a strict suspicion. This makes people within zero tolerance approach to those communities less likely to report hate crime – be it on the basis crimes or pass on information about of someone’s age, sexuality, gangs, or identify those who spread gender, religion, race, nationality hatred or extremism. We can do more or disability – and ensure officers to build better relations between have the resources and training communities and the police, they need. In particular I will ensuring bonds of trust are developed. challenge the appalling increase in homophobic, anti-Semitic, I will: and Islamophobic hate crimes. • Promote a police force that looks like the communities it is charged with keeping safe, with the aim of having a Met that is as diverse as London’s population.

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As a child I had a great education in local state schools – with teachers who inspired me. Today’s teachers are among the uncelebrated champions of our communities, but their job is getting tougher and tougher. Meanwhile we have a skills gap which is holding our economy back.

I strongly believe that how we educate the most deprived areas. and train people – both as youngsters I will put up a fight against any such and throughout their lives – has a proposals, and demand that the profound impact not only on their Government rethinks any formula own chances in life but on London’s which puts London’s schools at economy and competitiveness. risk. Currently the Mayor has few For others, not least some of our will consist of business leaders and But while London is a great place to powers relating to schools. However, world-leading financial companies, other employers alongside the Mayor, learn and train, with thousands of Londoners starting a family don’t care a weakness in science, technology, London councils and representatives of fantastic schools and some of the about the boundaries between 32 engineering and maths (STEM) skills HE, FE and schools to: best institutions of higher and further London boroughs - they want to know among London’s workforce makes • Develop a city-wide, strategic education anywhere in the world, we their child will get a place in a good hiring young people more difficult than approach to skills, identifying gaps are still failing to enable all Londoners school near where they live, in a class it needs to be. in provision and ensuring that to live up to their potential. Because of of 30 or fewer. I’ll play a I’ll be a Mayor who leads a new currently disparate programmes this, we stop businesses from growing, city-wide strategic leadership role, skills agenda for London – Skills for and funding streams, across the forcing them to look further afield for seeking to make a big dent in the Londoners – making sure businesses public, private and voluntary the skills they need. school places crisis. and Londoners get the skills they need sectors, work in concert. It’s a scandal that more than 44,000 Meanwhile, I hear from businesses to succeed. • Map the skills gap, and children in London are taught in classes that a lack of the skills they need in Training Londoners for London’s commission programmes to of more than 30 – with some taught the London workforce is a key barrier success create a pipeline of skilled London in classes of more than 40. Analysis to growth. For some, such as in the I will create a new Skills for Londoners workers to make the most of the by London Councils suggests that the tech sector, the problem is a shortage taskforce, learning from the Jobs for opportunities in London’s growth Government’s plans to reform funding of young Londoners with advanced New Yorkers taskforce established sectors. could lead to London schools losing technical skills, such as in coding, or by Bill de Blasio. Working in concert up to £260 million if they were in place web design. with the London Enterprise Panel, it now, with the harshest cuts falling on

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 47 03/03/2016 14:24 • Work with schools to improve • Develop high-quality • Improve provision of careers Supporting further education careers advice and to promote apprenticeship programmes in advice in schools through the new I will also seek a devolution deal over opportunities for children to get partnership with industry. Skills for Londoners taskforce. further education which recognises the an early start in career skills such strategic importance of a London-wide • Establish a construction academy • Work with councils to challenge as coding or engineering – and approach to FE, aligned with the needs scheme, with the housebuilding coasting or poor-performing making sure all such advice and of employers and students. industry, to close the gap between schools of all types and support programmes are gender blind, our ambitious housing targets those schools that need it, support I will: creating equal opportunities for and the need for more skilled calls for local democratic scrutiny boys and girls. • Be a champion for London’s constriction workers in London. of all state schools, and ensure neglected FE sector. • Ensure that communities across that both teachers and school Better schools for London’s London have access to training, support staff alike are properly • Use the local area review process children and that from a young age both recognised, respected and to ensure FE provision meets the I’ll take a lead on education, providing girls and boys are encouraged to rewarded. needs of London’s economy and is the strategic leadership and city-wide explore the skills they need to get of the high-quality that Londoners planning that London’s schools are on in the future economy. deserve. lacking. • Make gender equality a focus, I will: creating targeted opportunities for girls to excel in STEM skills in • Break down the boundaries particular. between boroughs and coordinate school-place planning, • Create thousands of new, high- working with local authorities to quality apprenticeships by prepare properly for long-term commissioning places using population growth. the levy paid by business to government. The levy paid by • Develop a city-wide STEM strategy London’s employers should be ring and establish a London STEM -fenced to the capital to make sure Commission to link schools with this benefits young people and science jobs and careers. businesses in London.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 48 03/03/2016 14:24 • Work with schools to improve • Develop high-quality • Improve provision of careers Supporting further education careers advice and to promote apprenticeship programmes in advice in schools through the new I will also seek a devolution deal over opportunities for children to get partnership with industry. Skills for Londoners taskforce. further education which recognises the an early start in career skills such strategic importance of a London-wide • Establish a construction academy • Work with councils to challenge as coding or engineering – and approach to FE, aligned with the needs scheme, with the housebuilding coasting or poor-performing making sure all such advice and of employers and students. industry, to close the gap between schools of all types and support programmes are gender blind, our ambitious housing targets those schools that need it, support I will: creating equal opportunities for and the need for more skilled calls for local democratic scrutiny boys and girls. • Be a champion for London’s constriction workers in London. of all state schools, and ensure neglected FE sector. • Ensure that communities across that both teachers and school Better schools for London’s London have access to training, support staff alike are properly • Use the local area review process children and that from a young age both recognised, respected and to ensure FE provision meets the I’ll take a lead on education, providing girls and boys are encouraged to rewarded. needs of London’s economy and is the strategic leadership and city-wide explore the skills they need to get of the high-quality that Londoners planning that London’s schools are on in the future economy. deserve. lacking. • Make gender equality a focus, I will: creating targeted opportunities for girls to excel in STEM skills in • Break down the boundaries particular. between boroughs and coordinate school-place planning, • Create thousands of new, high- working with local authorities to quality apprenticeships by prepare properly for long-term commissioning places using population growth. the levy paid by business to government. The levy paid by • Develop a city-wide STEM strategy London’s employers should be ring and establish a London STEM -fenced to the capital to make sure Commission to link schools with this benefits young people and science jobs and careers. businesses in London.

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• Promote the take-up of Adult Learning loans.

• Oppose the cuts to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes in London’s colleges, and lobby the Government to restore funding.

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• Promote the take-up of Adult Learning loans.

• Oppose the cuts to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes in London’s colleges, and lobby the Government to restore funding.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 53 03/03/2016 14:24 A FAIRER AND MORE EQUAL CITY London’s prosperity is founded on its openness, its spirit of innovation, and its proud history of offering opportunity to people from all backgrounds.

But I’m worried that many people women, ensuring that from childhood, are denied opportunities to succeed, girls are provided with opportunities and too many Londoners are treated to learn the skills they need to succeed unfairly because of their gender, to the full extent of their ability. And I ethnicity, faith, sexuality, gender will challenge employers to look at the identity or disability. Although gender balance among their senior Challenging inequality and Opening up opportunity London has made great strides over employees. promoting tolerance If all Londoners are to prosper, then the years in tackling sexism, racism, I’m passionate about the importance London should be a global beacon of nobody should be held back by a lack homophobia, and discrimination of fairness and social justice and will tolerance, acceptance and respect. of the basic skills and facilities required against people with disabilities, there ensure that opportunity and prosperity On the whole, Londoners reject to access work, public services, and is still a great deal of work to do. I will are shared, and that the vulnerable are sexism, racism, homophobia, and essential amenities. always stand up against prejudice and protected from exploitation. discrimination against people with hatred, and will make challenging the I will: disabilities. But I know there’s still much alarming rise in anti-Semitism and In a city as prosperous as London, more to be done. • Implement a digital inclusion Islamophobia that we have seen in there is no excuse for child poverty, strategy, led by the new Chief recent years a priority. or for people to have to rely on food I will: Digital Officer, to ensure that banks in order to feed their children, Although it seems incredible in 2016, • Prioritise closing the gender pay everyone in London, including and I will ensure that monitoring in one of the world’s most progressive gap and breaking the glass ceiling older Londoners, have the skills, and effective, targeted intervention cities, that someone’s pay, or their as key aims of my time as Mayor. and online access they need strategies are in place. ability to progress to the highest level to access public services, job • Make tackling hate crime of all in their chosen profession, should opportunities and information. types a priority for the police. depend on their gender, the pay gap • Promote financial inclusion, and the under-representation of • Work with the LGBT+ community, through partnership with the women at boardroom level proves schools, police and others financial sector, including social that equality between women and to highlight and challenge enterprises and credit unions, men still does not exist. I will be a transphobia, which remains with the goal of ensuring that proud feminist in City Hall. I will fight to all too prevalent, and promote every adult can access financial break down the barriers to success for acceptance of gender diversity. services in affordable ways that

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 55 03/03/2016 14:24 meet their needs, and that all • Improve accessibility at rail and Sharing the rewards of • Establish a new team in the young Londoners leave education tube stations, ensuring that prosperity Mayor’s Office dedicated to with numeracy skills and an wheelchair accessibility is central I am passionate about tackling low pay economic fairness – promoting the understanding of finance. to all infrastructure development and improving working conditions. London Living Wage, working with and maintenance plans, and that Both, in my view, are central to business to create apprenticeships, • Make gender equality a focus disabled or older Londoners are ensuring London’s place as a world encourage sustainability and good of Skills for Londoners, creating not excluded from our transport leading commercial centre, and as corporate citizenship, and root out targeted opportunities for girls to network. a fair and just city. These values are and tackle unacceptable practices excel in STEM skills in particular. also central to Labour’s core mission such as blacklisting. The team will • Make sure that London’s transport Making London accessible for all of challenging economic and social forge a new business compact - workers understand the needs of Nobody in London should be denied injustice. based on exemplary standards in disabled and older passengers. the opportunity to make the most of pay and employment rights for I will: what it has to offer – in work, travel and • Ensure Dial-a-Ride and Taxicard workers. And it will seek to expand leisure. I’ll make it a priority to do all I continue to provide crucial support • Strive to make London a Living opportunities for people with can to make our city more accessible for those less able to get around Wage city, in which all workers are disabilities to work and gain skills. for people with disabilities and older London. paid fairly: a real London Living • Work to smash the glass ceiling Londoners. Wage for every working Londoner. • Tackle disability hate crime. – as Mayor I’ll play a leadership I’ll use devolved financial powers I will: role in challenging the under- • Support the development of, and to offer business-rate relief for • Consult on all future transport and representation of women in senior protect schemes which expand small firms who pay the London planning matters – with genuine roles, making a clear statement opportunities for people with Living Wage, use GLA and TfL engagement between the Mayor’s by ensuring my business advisory disabilities to work and gain skills. procurement to lead by example, office and people with disabilities. board is gender-balanced. and work with the new Living Wage • Review the protections provided Commission to ensure the formula • Promote the uplift of London by the London Plan, and retain reflects the real costs of housing in weighting, which over the years targets for new build homes to London, which should see the LLW has fallen behind the growing gap meet the Lifetime Homes Standard rise to £10 and beyond during my in living costs between inner and with at least 10 per cent of new- first term as Mayor. outer London and elsewhere. build homes that are wheelchair accessible.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 56 03/03/2016 14:24 meet their needs, and that all • Improve accessibility at rail and Sharing the rewards of • Establish a new team in the young Londoners leave education tube stations, ensuring that prosperity Mayor’s Office dedicated to with numeracy skills and an wheelchair accessibility is central I am passionate about tackling low pay economic fairness – promoting the understanding of finance. to all infrastructure development and improving working conditions. London Living Wage, working with and maintenance plans, and that Both, in my view, are central to business to create apprenticeships, • Make gender equality a focus disabled or older Londoners are ensuring London’s place as a world encourage sustainability and good of Skills for Londoners, creating not excluded from our transport leading commercial centre, and as corporate citizenship, and root out targeted opportunities for girls to network. a fair and just city. These values are and tackle unacceptable practices excel in STEM skills in particular. also central to Labour’s core mission such as blacklisting. The team will • Make sure that London’s transport Making London accessible for all of challenging economic and social forge a new business compact - workers understand the needs of Nobody in London should be denied injustice. based on exemplary standards in disabled and older passengers. the opportunity to make the most of pay and employment rights for I will: what it has to offer – in work, travel and • Ensure Dial-a-Ride and Taxicard workers. And it will seek to expand leisure. I’ll make it a priority to do all I continue to provide crucial support • Strive to make London a Living opportunities for people with can to make our city more accessible for those less able to get around Wage city, in which all workers are disabilities to work and gain skills. for people with disabilities and older London. paid fairly: a real London Living • Work to smash the glass ceiling Londoners. Wage for every working Londoner. • Tackle disability hate crime. – as Mayor I’ll play a leadership I’ll use devolved financial powers I will: role in challenging the under- • Support the development of, and to offer business-rate relief for • Consult on all future transport and representation of women in senior protect schemes which expand small firms who pay the London planning matters – with genuine roles, making a clear statement opportunities for people with Living Wage, use GLA and TfL engagement between the Mayor’s by ensuring my business advisory disabilities to work and gain skills. procurement to lead by example, office and people with disabilities. board is gender-balanced. and work with the new Living Wage • Review the protections provided Commission to ensure the formula • Promote the uplift of London by the London Plan, and retain reflects the real costs of housing in weighting, which over the years targets for new build homes to London, which should see the LLW has fallen behind the growing gap meet the Lifetime Homes Standard rise to £10 and beyond during my in living costs between inner and with at least 10 per cent of new- first term as Mayor. outer London and elsewhere. build homes that are wheelchair accessible.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 57 03/03/2016 14:24 Leading by example Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona It will be my responsibility as Mayor in signing up to the United Nations to lead the way as a model employer, Global Compact Cities Programme. adopting the highest possible standards for fair pay, good working conditions and gender equality.

I will:

• Pay all employees of the GLA and its agencies the London Living Wage as a minimum, and require that all contractors and suppliers do the same.

• Publish an annual City Hall gender pay audit, and require that large contractors do the same.

• Establish a unified, fair pay structure across London for bus drivers.

• Never use zero-hours contracts to exploit workers.

• Be an open and transparent Mayor, with major contracts subjected to Freedom of Information, and City Hall signing up to the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Official Statistics, to improve public confidence.

• Join other European cities like

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 58 03/03/2016 14:24 Leading by example Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona It will be my responsibility as Mayor in signing up to the United Nations to lead the way as a model employer, Global Compact Cities Programme. adopting the highest possible standards for fair pay, good working conditions and gender equality.

I will:

• Pay all employees of the GLA and its agencies the London Living Wage as a minimum, and require that all contractors and suppliers do the same.

• Publish an annual City Hall gender pay audit, and require that large contractors do the same.

• Establish a unified, fair pay structure across London for bus drivers.

• Never use zero-hours contracts to exploit workers.

• Join other European cities like

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Our parks and acres of green open space are part of our city’s DNA, but London is also one of the world’s most polluted cities. Too many of our family and friends are suffering from London’s filthy air, and we need to act now.

When the Conservatives took over City sources. And I want them to work in Hall eight years ago, they inherited an economy which leads the world in a city that, in environmental terms, the new low-carbon technologies and was leading the world with innovative industries that represent the jobs and policies and programmes. Fast forward businesses of the future. to 2016 and our city has a record that Cleaning our air is mediocre at best. Other cities across Our most pressing environmental • Introduce Clean Bus Corridors – • Introduce Cleaner Walking Routes the world - and even cities here in challenge is cleaning up London’s prioritising new, clean buses for to School, working with local Britain like Nottingham - are leaving air. I know from personal experience those services which run on the councils to reduce congestion London behind. You, your family and that the city’s air is damaging people’s most polluted roads in the city. around schools as a means of friends are suffering, and almost health, as I suffer from adult-onset protecting children from filthy air. 10,000 of our fellow Londoners die • Set a target of only buying clean asthma. So many pollution hotspots in prematurely each year, because of air electric or hydrogen buses from • Embark on a major tree-planting the city are around schools, exposing so filthy it is actually illegal. 2020, seeking an agreement across programme across London, in our children to dangerously polluted other major European and global partnership with businesses and I want to be the Mayor who makes air, and putting them at greater risk of cities to do the same, in order to the public sector, with a particular London one of the world’s greenest respiratory conditions like mine. send a signal to bus manufacturers focus on schools and colleges. cities. Environmental checks are not I will: and create a race to the top in simply a side concern to be weighed up • Make cycling an easier and safer clean bus technology. against economic and social benefits. • Consult on bringing forward the choice for more Londoners. Ultra-Low Emission Zone and • Deliver the electric charging A greener future is central to my vision • Call upon the Government expanding it along major arterial infrastructure, in partnership with for London, to the kind of city I want to introduce a diesel vehicle routes or a wider section of central the private sector, necessary for my children to live in. I want, for all of scrappage scheme to support London. a major expansion in the use of our children, a city in which the air is those who wish to change to a electric vehicles. clean, green space is accessible, and greener car. the energy we consume is increasingly • Oppose the construction of a third drawn from renewable and local runway at Heathrow Airport.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 63 03/03/2016 14:24 World class public spaces • Revive plans to part-pedestrianise I will: Nature Conservation and nature As Londoners we are lucky enough Parliament Square, and seek to reserves. • Make London the first ‘National to have access to some of the world’s integrate it into the Palace of Park City’ – setting a long term • Protect wildlife and biodiversity by best public spaces and world-famous Westminster and Westminster target to make more than 50 per creating green corridors through streets and squares, but too many Abbey UNESCO World Heritage cent of our city green and ensure the city. are blighted with poor design, clutter, Site. that all children have access to congestion and pollution. I will work • Ensure that the Met’s Wildlife • Appoint a pedestrian champion at nature. with communities, boroughs and the Crime Unit continues to receive the TfL, to lead on measures to make private sector to improve our public • Complete the Thames Path, resources it needs to be effective. walking safer and easier across spaces and create more liveable streets working with boroughs, London. • Press ahead with planning for the and spaces. landowners and business to replacement of the Thames Barrier Protecting and enhancing our complete missing sections and I will: when it reaches the end of its life natural environment protect access to what is already to protect London from flooding • Prioritise the improvement of High I am passionate about the amazing open. for future generations. Streets, squares and public spaces green spaces and views – commons, • Open up more walking routes across the city - including outer parks, heaths, playing fields and Making London a low-carbon around London, and work with London and inner London. waterways – that do so much to beacon local authorities and TfL to make London a fantastic place to If London is to move to being a greener • Work with Westminster Council, improve the London Loop and live. It is in these green spaces that city, we have to get so much better at local businesses, Transport Capital Ring walks. our city’s biodiversity and wildlife is producing more of our own energy for London (TfL) and taxis, to most concentrated, our children play • Use planning powers to prevent from clean, low-carbon sources. We pedestrianise Oxford Street. I will and learn about nature, and we go to fracking within Greater London. need to reduce our CO2 emissions start by bringing back car-free relax. With huge pressures on land for while also being better prepared to days, and possibly weekends, • Oppose building on the Green housing and other uses, it is essential adapt to climate change. My plan to before moving towards full Belt, which is even more important that we maintain these spaces, and revive London’s clean energy sector pedestrianisation. Our eventual today than it was when it was even expand upon them. includes committing London to an ambition should be to turn one of created. ambitious target of becoming a zero- the world’s most polluted streets • Strengthen protections for carbon city by 2050. into one of the world’s finest public open spaces within the London spaces – a tree-lined avenue from Plan, including playing fields, Tottenham Court Road to Marble Metropolitan Open Land, and Arch. our Sites of Importance for Local

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 64 03/03/2016 14:24 World class public spaces • Revive plans to part-pedestrianise I will: Nature Conservation and nature As Londoners we are lucky enough Parliament Square, and seek to reserves. • Make London the first ‘National to have access to some of the world’s integrate it into the Palace of Park City’ – setting a long term • Protect wildlife and biodiversity by best public spaces and world-famous Westminster and Westminster target to make more than 50 per creating green corridors through streets and squares, but too many Abbey UNESCO World Heritage cent of our city green and ensure the city. are blighted with poor design, clutter, Site. that all children have access to congestion and pollution. I will work • Ensure that the Met’s Wildlife • Appoint a pedestrian champion at nature. with communities, boroughs and the Crime Unit continues to receive the TfL, to lead on measures to make private sector to improve our public • Complete the Thames Path, resources it needs to be effective. walking safer and easier across spaces and create more liveable streets working with boroughs, London. • Press ahead with planning for the and spaces. landowners and business to replacement of the Thames Barrier Protecting and enhancing our complete missing sections and I will: when it reaches the end of its life natural environment protect access to what is already to protect London from flooding • Prioritise the improvement of High I am passionate about the amazing open. for future generations. Streets, squares and public spaces green spaces and views – commons, • Open up more walking routes across the city - including outer parks, heaths, playing fields and Making London a low-carbon around London, and work with London and inner London. waterways – that do so much to beacon local authorities and TfL to make London a fantastic place to If London is to move to being a greener • Work with Westminster Council, improve the London Loop and live. It is in these green spaces that city, we have to get so much better at local businesses, Transport Capital Ring walks. our city’s biodiversity and wildlife is producing more of our own energy for London (TfL) and taxis, to most concentrated, our children play • Use planning powers to prevent from clean, low-carbon sources. We pedestrianise Oxford Street. I will and learn about nature, and we go to fracking within Greater London. need to reduce our CO2 emissions start by bringing back car-free relax. With huge pressures on land for while also being better prepared to days, and possibly weekends, • Oppose building on the Green housing and other uses, it is essential adapt to climate change. My plan to before moving towards full Belt, which is even more important that we maintain these spaces, and revive London’s clean energy sector pedestrianisation. Our eventual today than it was when it was even expand upon them. includes committing London to an ambition should be to turn one of created. ambitious target of becoming a zero- the world’s most polluted streets • Strengthen protections for carbon city by 2050. into one of the world’s finest public open spaces within the London spaces – a tree-lined avenue from Plan, including playing fields, Tottenham Court Road to Marble Metropolitan Open Land, and Arch. our Sites of Importance for Local

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 65 03/03/2016 14:24 I will: • Back district heating schemes that As Mayor, I’ll lead by example. • Collaborate with other cities make the most of waste heat from through international networks • Establish Energy for Londoners, a I will: the Tube, such as that in Bunhill, such as the C40 and ICLEI to not-for-profit company providing Islington. • Take all possible steps to divest the develop innovative solutions to a comprehensive range of energy London Pension Fund Authority of the challenges of tackling climate services to help Londoners London also needs to up its game on its remaining investments in fossil- change and other environmental generate more low-carbon resource efficiency – we still produce fuel industries. challenges cities like London face. energy and increase their energy too much waste and don’t recycle efficiency, support local and enough, and we don’t treat water like • Make sure City Hall and all other community energy enterprises, the scarce resource it is. GLA buildings maintain the highest and buy clean energy generated environmental standards on I will: across the city, using it to power heating, lighting and waste. GLA and TfL facilities. • Reinvigorate efforts to increase • Lead on reducing the city’s waste the amount London recycles, so • Lead on work to cut energy bills for footprint, working to increase that we get back on track with Londoners by promoting the roll recycling and cut the amount hitting the 65 per cent target by out of smart meters and exploring London sends to landfill. 2030, including seeing waste as an the business case for potential opportunity to create jobs in reuse, savings on bills by bulk-buying repair, remanufacturing energy. and materials innovation. • Make the most of the city’s roofs, • Promote initiatives that reduce public buildings and land owned water consumption in London, by TfL for energy generation by including the roll out of, and more producing a solar energy strategy. public information about water • Ensure all new developments meet metering. low carbon, energy efficiency and sustainability standards.

• Reduce energy demand by working with the industry to accelerate the roll out of smart meters.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 66 03/03/2016 14:24 I will: • Back district heating schemes that As Mayor, I’ll lead by example. • Collaborate with other cities make the most of waste heat from through international networks • Establish Energy for Londoners, a I will: the Tube, such as that in Bunhill, such as the C40 and ICLEI to not-for-profit company providing Islington. • Take all possible steps to divest the develop innovative solutions to a comprehensive range of energy London Pension Fund Authority of the challenges of tackling climate services to help Londoners London also needs to up its game on its remaining investments in fossil- change and other environmental generate more low-carbon resource efficiency – we still produce fuel industries. challenges cities like London face. energy and increase their energy too much waste and don’t recycle efficiency, support local and enough, and we don’t treat water like • Make sure City Hall and all other community energy enterprises, the scarce resource it is. GLA buildings maintain the highest and buy clean energy generated environmental standards on I will: across the city, using it to power heating, lighting and waste. GLA and TfL facilities. • Reinvigorate efforts to increase • Lead on reducing the city’s waste the amount London recycles, so • Lead on work to cut energy bills for footprint, working to increase that we get back on track with Londoners by promoting the roll recycling and cut the amount hitting the 65 per cent target by out of smart meters and exploring London sends to landfill. 2030, including seeing waste as an the business case for potential opportunity to create jobs in reuse, savings on bills by bulk-buying repair, remanufacturing energy. and materials innovation. • Make the most of the city’s roofs, • Promote initiatives that reduce public buildings and land owned water consumption in London, by TfL for energy generation by including the roll out of, and more producing a solar energy strategy. public information about water • Ensure all new developments meet metering. low carbon, energy efficiency and sustainability standards.

• Reduce energy demand by working with the industry to accelerate the roll out of smart meters.

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I owe the NHS everything. I was born in St George’s Hospital in Tooting, as were my two daughters. I know how crucial our health service is to millions of Londoners on a daily basis. That’s why so many Londoners share my alarm at how the Tories have allowed the NHS to drift into crisis.

Despite the magnificent efforts of our using City Hall to argue for the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare resources the NHS needs, defending it workers, patients are suffering. Year against Tory attacks, and campaigning on year, waiting lists get longer, it’s alongside patients, health workers and harder to see your GP, and waiting all NHS supporters against any service times in A&E and for ambulances are closures or reconfigurations without Leadership on health wide health services. increasing. The NHS in London has proper consultation. I will fight for As Mayor, I want to take the lead on • Work with the NHS and the fallen into a large financial deficit, new powers to plan and coordinate health in the city. London Ambulance Service to threatening future cuts to services, services across the city, and use them, I will: help improve staff retention and while mental health services can’t cope in collaboration with partners, to • Be a champion for London’s NHS, recruitment. with growing demand. The high cost ensure that all Londoners have proper protecting you, your friends and of living and shortage of affordable access to health services, with solutions • Champion the need for additional your family from the worst of the homes means many hospitals are tailored to the different needs of funding to plug the social care Government’s failure on health in struggling to recruit and retain health patients, communities and places. gap, and the joining up of the capital, fighting for greater workers. Underfunded social care And I will do what I can to ensure that services to reduce unnecessary support for GP, A&E, London services mean that many Londoners we move towards parity of esteem hospital admissions. I will Ambulance Service and mental don’t receive early support to prevent between physical and mental health promote borough innovation and health services, and integration of avoidable hospital admissions. And, illness. leadership on the ground to shift services around the patient. since NHS London was abolished by from reactive care to prevention, the Tories, London is without the city- • Campaign for extra powers to early intervention and care closer wide strategic leadership on health it coordinate your health services to home. desperately needs. across the city to provide proper • Launch a review of the provision of strategic planning, and ensure Londoners need a Mayor who will bus services to London’s hospitals. greater access for Londoners to stand up for the city’s health services. crucial services while providing I’m determined to be that Mayor, democratic scrutiny of London-

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 71 Improving London’s health 03/03/2016 14:24 Improving public health I will: and cycling, to all Londoners, Greater support for mental I will be a Mayor who takes action to supporting those who want to health • Get to grips with health inequality improve public health and tackle health shake off lifestyle risks such as So many of us suffer from mental in London, leading from City inequalities in London. The current drugs, smoking and alcohol, health problems at some point in our Hall on reducing the spread of Mayor has neglected this crucial area, and tackling childhood obesity, lives, yet there is still a stigma attached infectious diseases and promoting despite the spreading of diseases that including through challenging the to mental illness, and within our health healthier lifestyles to harder-to- we once thought were eradicated here spread of fast food shops in areas services, mental health still does not reach groups and communities, such as TB and measles, worsening close to schools. enjoy parity of esteem with physical while improving the screening of air pollution, and the alarming growth health. Londoners to halt the spread of TB. • Tackle London’s dangerously in childhood obesity. I won’t duck the polluted air. I will: difficult decisions necessary to improve • Develop a comprehensive the health of all Londoners. public health strategy, focused • Renew our focus on prevention • Lead a campaign to break down around the promotion of active of and screening for HIV, working the stigma of mental illness,

lifestyles, including sport, walking with boroughs on collective and improve the availability commissioning and provision of of information and support, prevention services and ensuring particularly amongst young men that effective information on HIV in London, and particular at-risk reaches the right audiences. groups such as BAME men, and the LGBT+ community.

• Promote and support Mental Health Awareness Week.

• Coordinate efforts to reduce the number of people who take their own lives. I will expand best practice in crisis care support, and encourage better joint working between boroughs, health services, police, transport and voluntary sectors when dealing with people with mental health issues.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 72 03/03/2016 14:24 Improving public health I will: and cycling, to all Londoners, Greater support for mental I will be a Mayor who takes action to supporting those who want to health • Get to grips with health inequality improve public health and tackle health shake off lifestyle risks such as So many of us suffer from mental in London, leading from City inequalities in London. The current drugs, smoking and alcohol, health problems at some point in our Hall on reducing the spread of Mayor has neglected this crucial area, and tackling childhood obesity, lives, yet there is still a stigma attached infectious diseases and promoting despite the spreading of diseases that including through challenging the to mental illness, and within our health healthier lifestyles to harder-to- we once thought were eradicated here spread of fast food shops in areas services, mental health still does not reach groups and communities, such as TB and measles, worsening close to schools. enjoy parity of esteem with physical while improving the screening of air pollution, and the alarming growth health. Londoners to halt the spread of TB. • Tackle London’s dangerously in childhood obesity. I won’t duck the polluted air. I will: difficult decisions necessary to improve • Develop a comprehensive the health of all Londoners. public health strategy, focused • Renew our focus on prevention • Lead a campaign to break down around the promotion of active of and screening for HIV, working the stigma of mental illness, lifestyles, including sport, walking with boroughs on collective and improve the availability commissioning and provision of of information and support, prevention services and ensuring particularly amongst young men that effective information on HIV in London, and particular at-risk reaches the right audiences. groups such as BAME men, and the LGBT+ community.

• Promote and support Mental Health Awareness Week.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 75 03/03/2016 14:24 MAKING THE MOST OF ARTS, CULTURE AND CREATIVITY There are few places on earth that can rival our city for its arts and culture. Growing up, the bright lights of the West End were always something special, while visits to the many amazing museums and galleries were great adventures. Of course, London’s cultural hotspots extend way beyond the centre.

We are blessed with local museums, workforce is being driven out, often sporting venues, theatres and tourist to cheaper cities across Britain and attractions across all parts of our city. Europe. I’m enormously proud of what London Protecting and promoting our has to offer. Our arts and culture help design, film, art and architecture next to existing venues meet cultural riches make London an amazing city to live – to Londoners, the rest of Britain soundproofing costs. I want London to continue being the in, and are a big draw to people from and the world, taking forward the world’s artistic and cultural capital - • Work with boroughs to promote all over the world – both tourists and work of London & Partners in so I’ll make sure the city’s fashion, and protect London’s libraries, those looking to the city to work and this area. design and creative sectors are given community centres, and suburban set up businesses. the support they need. I’ll build on the • Set up Creative Enterprise arts venues. But I know London’s artistic, cultural success of the Olympics and attract Zones, providing dedicated small Access to the arts and creative life faces some real more global events to the city. And workspace with live-in space so I’m also determined that all Londoners challenges. Too many Londoners don’t I’ll support and protect London’s that creative industries, artists should benefit from the city’s fantastic get to make the most of our city’s workspaces and venues threatened by and the fashion industry are given arts and culture. cultural assets. Funding for London’s encroaching development. extra support to flourish. arts is increasingly stretched. In the last I will: I will: • Strengthen planning protections decade, London has lost around 185 for small industrial and creative • Establish a London Borough of live music venues, and the unique • Produce a Cultural Infrastructure workspaces, and for London’s Culture, like the European City character of areas such as Soho is Plan for 2030 to identify what we iconic pubs. of Culture, so that every year a under threat from soaring rents. need in order to sustain London’s different borough is the focus of The rising cost of living and surging future as a cultural capital. • Protect London’s live music a celebration of the city’s arts and property prices have led to the loss venues, clubs and pubs by • Build on London’s vital tourist culture. of artist studios and small business introducing an ’Agent for Change’ industry by promoting the city’s start-up space while our city’s creative rule so new developments cultural riches – our fashion, music,

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 77 03/03/2016 14:24 • Continue to back major cultural I will: festivals to celebrate London’s • Use the London Plan to protect religious and racial diversity, playing fields. and ensure Pride continues to be a fantastic, community-led • Work with London’s football showcase of all of London’s LGBT+ and other major sports clubs to communities. support and expand their vast capacity for making a positive • Support London’s theatres, impact in the community, galleries and museums to open up especially with young people. access for all Londoners, and to spread their activity and presence • Work to bring a NFL franchise to across the city. London.

• Create a Love London Pass, • Build on the city’s success in giving Londoners discounts and hosting the 2012 Olympic and reductions across the city to Paralympic Games by bidding for exhibitions, galleries, restaurants, similar global sporting, cultural and shows and concerts. artistic events to come to London, in particular bringing the Tour de • Appoint a ‘Night Czar’ to France back to London. champion London’s vibrant night- time economy. • Rebuild our Olympic Legacy, turning around the failure of the Building on our sporting success last four years, promoting and London is a sporting city, and I’ll ensure supporting sport for more people that while retaining our global status of all ages. as a venue for professional sporting competition, we do all we can as a city to enable and encourage more people to participate and compete at every level.

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x160668_TLP_Inset_p2_sh.indd 78 03/03/2016 14:24 • Continue to back major cultural I will: festivals to celebrate London’s • Use the London Plan to protect religious and racial diversity, playing fields. and ensure Pride continues to be a fantastic, community-led • Work with London’s football showcase of all of London’s LGBT+ and other major sports clubs to communities. support and expand their vast capacity for making a positive • Support London’s theatres, impact in the community, galleries and museums to open up especially with young people. access for all Londoners, and to spread their activity and presence • Work to bring a NFL franchise to across the city. London.

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