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Tory candidate Mr Bailey claims that his Labour rival has seized upon the Black Lives Matter movement to further his own political ambitions. Mr Bailey goes up against Mr Khan in the elections on May 6.
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The London Assembly has the power to amend the mayor’s budget but cannot reject it outright With no amendments passed, it is deemed by law to have been approved despite members voting 12 to 11 (with one abstention) against it. The new budget will take effect at the start of the new financial year on April 1 and will include a 9.5 per cent increase in the GLA portion of council tax paid by Londoners. Speaking at today’s meeting, Mr Khan said that the budget had been put together “under difficult circumstances” and pointed to the financial toll that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the city.
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1:22 PM February 25, 2021
Toyin Agbetu has resigned from the Mayor of London’s new Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.
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A Hackney activist has resigned from a diversity commission set up by the London mayor, but denied accusations of racism.
Toyin Agbetu, a scholar-activist, earlier this month announced his appointment to London Mayor Sadiq Khan s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, which is looking into the history of statues and landmarks in the capital.
However, Mr Agbetu has now resigned over accusations of antisemitism in previous statements.
In a post on his Facebook page, he said: I can t take the risk that all the gains we have made re BLM (Black Lives Matter) unravel so I have had to make a frustrating but strategic move.