Elected mayor of London Sadiq Khan | Political position Centre-left | |
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Headquarters Ergon House, Horseferry Road, Millbank, London Borough of Westminster, SW1P 2AL Ideology Democratic socialism
Social Democracy European affiliation Party of European Socialists International affiliation Progressive Alliance, Socialist International (Observer) | ||
The London Labour Party is the regional party of the British Labour Party that operates in Greater London.
Party strength
The party is currently the largest political party in Greater London. Labour currently holds 4 of the 8 London seats in the European Parliament (double the number it won in 2009), 45 of 73 London seats in the House of Commons and 13 out of 25 seats in the London Assembly. The party currently controls 21 out of 32 London boroughs, and all 5 of the 5 directly-elected mayoralties and won 1,055 out of the 1,851 Councillors in the 2014 local elections. The party held the mayoralty of London from 2004 to 2008. It lost in 2000 to hard-left independent Ken Livingstone, who rejoined the party in 2004. He was defeated in 2008 and again in 2012 to the Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson.
In the 2015 general election the party won 45 of 73 seats (62%) in Greater London. Following the London Labour Party mayoral selection, 2015 Sadiq Khan was selected as the party candidate for the London mayoral election, 2016, which he subsequently won with a record share of the vote.
Emily Thornberry is Chair of the London Group of Labour MPs.