Cllr Anntoinette Bramble has been elected leader of the Hackney Labour group, taking the helm of the official opposition at a Town Hall now controlled by the Green party for the first time in the ...

GLA webcast. City Hall has blocked a £50 million contract between the Met Police and US tech company Palantir over a “clear and serious bre ...

Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, the Greens and activist groups have lobbied Hackney Council to divest its pension fund from firms linked to Israel’s military and have ...

Zoë Garbett has named the team that will govern Hackney for the next four years, following the Green party’s historic seizure of political control of the council earlier this month. The new mayor, who ...

The new chair of the London Assembly is a former Hackney councillor who has vowed to stringently hold Sir Sadiq Khan to account “on issues that matter most to Londoners”. Conservative Assembly Member ...

A Green party councillor has quit within days of winning his seat because he was voted in against local government rules.

Footage captured over the May bank holiday weekend has reignited concerns about dockless e-bike parking in Hackney, after a local resident filmed a tangle of abandoned hire bikes strewn across the ...

If there’s something May’s local elections made clear, it’s that Britain’s voting system is not working. In Hackney, the Green Party got 44.2 per cent of the vote but won around 74 per cent of the ...

‘It’s never been more evident that First Past the Post is not fit for purpose. It’s time to replace it’ ...

Hackney businesses have warned they are losing one of their best trading days of the year following changes to the route of the Hackney Half. The popular half marathon has taken place in the borough ...

In a statement, the Hackney Greens thanked all those who helped the party in the election campaign and said: “We look forward to running a Green council that keeps the spirit of community, ...