Opinions

The Everyone’s Invited campaign was set up last June to campaign against a culture of misogyny, harassment, sexual abuse and sexual assault amongst young people. More than 13,000 people, mainly young women and girls have now anonymously shared their experiences on the campaign’s website.

It has been widely reported that 56,000 people are still living in unsafe blocks, but this only accounts for those buildings using Grenfell-style ACM cladding. Inside Housing has estimated that the true number of people living in potentially dangerous properties is around 600,000

We’ve got the worst of all worlds when it comes to demonstrations during this Covid pandemic. The law is confusing, with some people being angry because they think they don’t have the legal right to demonstrate.

This last week has been incredibly difficult for women across the country. Women should be safe and feel safe to walk the streets without fear. After what was such a traumatic week, the vigil on Clapham Common was our chance to come together and grieve the loss of Sarah’s life.

Nearly four years on from the Grenfell tragedy, thousands of people still live in unsafe buildings with dangerous cladding. Innocent leaseholders have spent the duration of lockdown trapped in flammable homes, paying colossal bills for repair work and hundreds of pounds per month on interim safety measures such as ‘waking watch’

Many families have been touched by tragedy with the highest excess death toll of any country with 120,000 people killed by Covid, three times the number killed in the Blitz. Despite the horror and hardships Covid has imposed, it has been amazing to witness the resilience and generosity of Londoners.

Almost four years on from the dreadful Grenfell disaster the Government has failed to get a grip of the cladding scandal. Despite repeated promises that leaseholders would not bear the cost of fixing this problem, countless families are still living in flammable buildings

I was recently drawn for my first ever Prime Minister’s Question and had the opportunity to push the Government on the issue of children’s citizenship fees. It’s thanks to the brilliant work of campaign groups that this issue has been brought to light

This lockdown seems to have been the hardest of them all and we have passed some very grim milestones in recent weeks. I therefore thought I should use this week’s column to try to spread some positivity among readers

Last week marked a grim milestone: more than 100,000 people have now died in the UK from coronavirus, 12,600 here in London – a national tragedy. These are not just statistics; they represent the deaths of loved ones and behind every death is a grieving family.

The start of 2021 has been a time of very mixed emotions for all of us. There is hope on the horizon with the start of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out, but still many challenges as the rate of coronavirus has risen rapidly