2021 London Mayoral Election: Key pledges from the major candidates’ manifestos

Below is a summary of the key pledges from the candidates of the four most popular parties for the upcoming election and also the candidate from the up and coming ‘Burning Pink Party’. Links have been provided for each candidates’ full manifesto if you are interested in finding out more.

Even if you are disillusioned with the major parties, I urge all Londoners to vote regardless of your preference.

It is also vital that we remember these pledges so we can hold the future mayor to account if they fail to deliver on their promises.

Sadiq Khan (Labour): Sadiq-for-London-Manifesto-.pdf

• Build 10,000 new council homes and 82,000 low-cost homes over the next 5 years
• Green New Deal: Make London carbon-neutral by 2030
• 1300 extra police (funded by increasing council tax by 26p/week)
• Make public transport more affordable
• £45 million ‘Young Londoners Fund’
• 4G connection on all underground services

Shaun Bailey (Conservative): Shaun Bailey’s Plans for London Expanded

• 8,000 more police and reopen 38 police stations
• 32 new youth centres and 4,000 new youth workers
• Zero-emission bus fleet by 2025 and interest-free loans so black cabs can go electric
• Reversing 10% Council Tax increase
• Create a London Infrastructure Bank to finance Hammersmith Bridge Repairs, Tube Upgrades and Crossrail 2

Sian Berry (Green): Our manifesto: a new start for London – Sian Berry for Mayor 2021

• Invest more into green energy and new jobs: warmer homes and funding to reduce fuel poverty
• Set clear targets to reduce violence and bring murders down to zero
• Achieve clean air: ultra-low emission zone covering the whole city, cut traffic, invest in green buses
• Prevent loss of council housing: give residents the power to veto against demolition, creation of People’s Land Commission so that residents can make their own plans for new homes
• Set targets to resolve the climate and ecological emergency before 2030

Luisa Porritt (Liberal Democrats): Our Plan to Take London Forward (luisa4london.co.uk)

• Create jobs: reinvent highstreets, creation of London Apprenticeships Hub, support small businesses and self-employed
• Create London Housing Company to deliver affordable homes
• End homelessness
• Invest in green transport
• Restore trust in the police

Valerie Brown (Burning Pink): valerie-brown-manifesto.pdf (burningpink.earth)

• Revolution against political class
• Creation of Citizens Assemblies: Randomly select ordinary citizens to make legally binding decisions on political issues
• Prevent ecological and social collapse
• Radical constitutional change to put citizens, not politicians, in power