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Andrew Slaughter MP: An artifical catchment area

WHILE I was MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush before the last election, I watched the fulminations of Toby Young and his group of Acton parents, secure in the knowledge that by the time he was ready to roll I would be safely in Hammersmith, and Ealing politicians would have to decide what to do.Read

Andrew Slaughter MP: Controlling private rents

WHO are the people receiving housing benefit that the coalition government want to starve out of London?Read

Andrew Slaughter MP; Anger over Shepherd's Bush market

WHAT is going on at Shepherd's Bush Market? For years the traders have rightly railed against owner Transport for London for taking their rents while allowing the infrastructure to deteriorate. And they have urged the council to help in return for the business rates they pay with little to show for them.Read

Andrew Slaughter MP: Independent analysis needed for sewer tunnel

LAST week, the Conservative environment minister gave the government's full support to Thames Water's plans for a massive sewer relief tunnel under the Thames.Read

Commons touch

LIFE is getting back to normal after the longest and most gruelling election campaign in 25 years.Read

'Unpredictable period' winding down

THE most unpredictable period in British politics in my lifetime shows no sign of winding down.Read

'Israel is creating future problems for itself '

I HAVE just returned from a four-day visit to the Gaza Strip.Read

First hand effects of the recession

LAST week I thought I would go and see what practical steps were being taken to support local families in the recession, and I took the minister responsible, Helen Goodman, with me.Read

We need a free press

IMAGINE if the government started to publish its own newspaper.Read

Protect children but don't abandon civil liberties

There was a general welcome for the recent review of the Vetting and Barring Scheme, which cut by two million the number of adults who will have to go through police checks before having contact with children.Read

People first, not developers

A letter in Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle last week gave a timely reminder to politicians that their accountability doesn’t start and end on election day.Read