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Posts Tagged ‘Green party’

Council’s call for rent controls ‘would not lead to the skies collapsing’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 28 November 2025 at 18:38
Sam Pallis

Labour-run Hackney Council said the government needs to go further than Renters Rights Bill by empowering it to cap private rents

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Letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves from Zoë Garbett, Hackney Green party councillor for Dalston

By Zoë Garbett | Monday 17 November 2025 at 15:18
Zoë Garbett, Hackney Green Party councillor for Dalston

‘If the government are serious about breaking the cycle of inequality, this budget must put families and young people first’

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Hackney Green mayoral candidate calls to ‘break up the Met’ following report into ‘systemic’ racism

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 13 November 2025 at 10:32
Zoë Garbett

Green councillor Zoë Garbett called for the Met’s directorates to be separated and for London residents to “rethink how we keep each other safe.”

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‘It’s not f***ing okay’ – Tempers flare at council debate over Hackney’s ‘ties’ with Israel

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 27 October 2025 at 11:49
Protestors outside Hackney Town Hall

The council has faced pressure from Green party and Independent Socialist councillors to end its twinning relationship with Haifa, but Hackney Labour party has accused its opponents of political game-playing

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Raising the colour: Hackney flies flag for Black History Season

By Claudia Lee | Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 10:32
Hackney Council black history season flag

Following a summer where flag wars have polarised the country, the borough is ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’

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Hackney MP Meg Hillier joins judging panel of Kingsland Shopping Centre logo design competition

By Agnes Dorling | Friday 10 October 2025 at 13:11
Kingsland Shopping Centre

The MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch said the contest was about ‘capturing the story of Dalston’ and reflecting its ‘diversity, ambition and energy’

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Sadiq Khan breaks ranks with Labour government to call Gaza tragedy ‘genocide’ for first time

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 September 2025 at 11:34
Sadiq Khan at People's Question Time, 17 September 2025

Mayor of London has previously resisted calls to label Israel’s military campaign a genocide but now says it’s “inescapable” to conclude that

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Greens welcome Met’s removal of 371 school officers – but others brand it ‘most catastrophic decision in keeping children safe’

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 4 September 2025 at 13:42
Hackney mayor Zoë Garbett

Surveys revealed that 93 per cent of Londoners supported the presence of Safer Schools Officers in school buildings

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London Mayor joins Green party in calling for London arms fair to be scrapped

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 21:44
Green party London Assembly Members and councillors protest against DSEI arms fair

Sadiq Khan ‘is appalled that the capital is being used as a marketplace for those who wish to trade in weapons’

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Green Party announces Hackney Mayor candidate for 2026 – and her deputy

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 11 August 2025 at 12:20
Hackney mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett and her nominated deputy Dylan Law

Zoë Garbett and Dylan Law explain the change they want to see in Hackney if the party wrests control from Labour next year

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Lego, books and staff possessions ‘dumped in landfill’ as closed primary school ‘gutted’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 20:37
A 'gutted' St Dominic's classroom days after closure

Staff at the school were reportedly told to box up and label their belongings – then the removal team came before they had a chance to collect them

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Opposition groups stage Council AGM walkout over ‘assault on democracy’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 15 May 2025 at 14:52
Hackney Council AGM 14 May 2025

Green party and Independent councillors slam Labour for ‘stifling criticism’, attacking service failures and position on Israel-Gaza war

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‘What are they afraid of?’: Fresh row over changes to Town Hall constitution

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 10 April 2025 at 19:21
L-R: Cllrs Penny Wrout, Claudia Turbet-Delof and Fliss Premru.

Independent Socialists say they are being ‘punished for being an effective opposition’

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Dalston councillor slams ‘discriminatory’ use of facial recognition

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 2 April 2025 at 11:46

Green co-leader Zoë Garbett criticises police as data shows face scanners mostly used in boroughs with large Black populace

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‘Cost-of-greed crisis’: Opposition councillors urge Town Hall to back ‘immediate’ wealth tax

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 4 December 2024 at 14:14
Critical: Green party London Assembly Member and Dalston councillor Cllr Zoë Garbett

Debate on Green motion calling for redistribution pushed to January

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‘Failed experiment’: Dalston councillor challenges London mayor to bring in rent controls

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 8 November 2024 at 11:40

Cllr Zoë Garbett AM calls out Sadiq Khan over failure to hold a rent commission despite 2019 promise

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Rise in drug deaths shows UK policy is ‘killing us’, says Dalston councillor

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 24 October 2024 at 12:26

Cllr Zoë Garbett AM calls on London Mayor to legalise and regulate drug use

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Greens and Independents unite in bid to oust Tories as largest opposition in Hackney

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 30 August 2024 at 19:06

Next month’s polls will make it eight by-elections in two years for the council

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Stamford Hill Jewish community calls on government to scrap two-child benefit cap

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 August 2024 at 15:07
Rabbi Levi Schapiro

Letter calls on secretary of state for work and pensions to consider the needs of larger families

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London Fields and Stoke Newington by-election candidates announced

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 August 2024 at 13:32
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Voters are off to the polls on 12 September 2024

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