The Metropolitan Police needs to accept that it is institutionally sexist, racist and homophobic, Greenwich Council’s leader has said after the damning Casey report into the force’s failings. Anthony Okereke said that the Met “cannot continue to exist” without the reforms recommended by Baroness Casey, who found that the force had lost the trust of […]
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We’re backing Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ, Greenwich Council leader insists
Greenwich Council will not be following its neighbours in challenging London’s expanded Ultra Low Emissions Zones in the courts, its leader said on Thursday night. Anthony Okereke defended mayor Sadiq Khan’s plans to charge drivers of the most polluting vehicles £12.50 to enter Greater London, saying that they were about “promoting people’s health”. But the […]
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Greenwich knows Greenwich, so stop holding us back, council leader tells PM
COMMENT: Greenwich councillors are set to sign off a 5 per cent council tax rise this week. After 13 years of cuts and uncertainty, council leader ANTHONY OKEREKE says the government needs to fund public services fairly. Our proposed budget has been shaped by Greenwich residents. Shaped by people who love this area, its culture […]
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£100 for each child on free school meals in Greenwich’s cost of living package
Families in Greenwich borough with children on free school meals will get at least £100 each to help them through the cost of living crisis, councillors agreed yesterday. About 12,000 children are on free school meals, and the council will pay £100 per child to help pay bills as inflation and soaring energy bills bite. […]
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Stop and rethink Silvertown Tunnel, ‘frustrated’ Greenwich Council leader tells Khan
Updated story: Greenwich Council’s leader has challenged Sadiq Khan to halt work on the Silvertown Tunnel and reassess his plans for the crossing – a decade after his predecessors first campaigned for the new road to be built. Anthony Okereke spoke out in a message to a meeting of the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition […]
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Greenwich Council leader to address Silvertown Tunnel meeting as campaigners plot next move
Greenwich Council leader Anthony Okereke is to address Silvertown Tunnel activists on Sunday as they meet to discuss what to do now tunnelling work has started. Okereke will join the Green Party London Assembly member Sian Berry and Anna Moore, a respiratory health expert, at the public event at Greenwich Yacht Club. Tunnelling began a […]
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Former Greenwich councillor Liz Truss to become prime minister
The first Greenwich councillor to become a cabinet minister rose to the highest job in the land today – and has been invited back to Woolwich Town Hall to talk about the cost of living crisis by the council’s new leader. Liz Truss, who represented Eltham South between 2006 and 2010, beat Rishi Sunak to […]
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We’ll be on the pulse of Woolwich Works, Greenwich Council leader promises
Greenwich Council leader Anthony Okereke has insisted that the town hall will be “on the pulse” of the troubled Woolwich Works creative hub as councillors pressed for an outsider to be brought in to monitor its finances. A panel of three councillors, sitting in a specially-called meeting, last night called for a feasibility study to […]
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