Embargo: 11 59 pm, Wednesday November 6 Wolmar says break up the Metropolitan Police In a speech at the Centre for London, Christian Wolmar, who is seeking the Labour nomination for the 2016 London mayoral election, argues that the Metropolitan Police is too big and needs to be broken up. In particular, Wolmar suggests that […]

By Tom Harris MP, Telegraph blog 24 October 2013   As anecdotes go, this isn’t much of one at all, but it briefly concerns a celebrity I want to write about, so here goes. Last year, as I exited a karaoke bar in Soho with a group of parliamentary colleagues, I bumped into Eddie Izzard. […]

The Wolmarforlondon mayoral campaign is holding its first fringe event at the Labour party conference, with four key speakers on the theme: ‘What does London want from a Labour mayor?’.   Four varied and highly informed speakers will be presenting their ideas at the meeting:   Lise Thorsen, the Copenhagen councillor in charge of sustainability.   Will […]

Christian Wolmar, one of the UK’s leading transport commentators who is seeking the Labour nomination for the 2016 London mayoral elections, has welcomed announcements by Ed Miliband on reforms to candidate selection and the potential introduction of an open primary for the Party’s London mayoral nomination.   Christian said: “This is potentially excellent news for […]

Boris Johnson gave us a the possibility of a double nightmare scenario, yesterday – driveless trains on the Tube and a third term of his do-nothing mayoralty.   Speaking on LBC, Johnson hinted that he may stand for a third term as a mayor despite ruling this out. Although this is unlikely given his greater […]

Christian visited campaigners against the plans to demolish 600 homes in Camden for HS2 last week. He was given a detailed presentation on a better plan for Euston station, which would not require demolition and shown round estates which are scheduled to be evacuated by tenants and leaseholds by 2015. He talked to several people […]

On a visit to Croatia where Christian Wolmar will be addressing a conference on the British experience of rail privatisation, he will also be meeting representatives of a new political party interested in radical new policies for cities.   Za Grad is the newest political party in Zagreb, having been founded three months ago by […]