Leonie Cooper for Merton & Wandsworth

Local Labour Councillor Leonie Cooper has been selected as candidate for our constituency in next year's London Assembly elections.

Leonie, who is our housing spokesman on the council, has been working with me on several of the issues I've been campaigning on like my Newlands Hall petition and the council's neglect of the Lennox estate. She is Deputy Leader of Wandsworth's Labour Councillors and has been a borough resident for almost 20 years.

The London Assembly holds the Mayor and many of the Capital's service providers like the Metropolitan Police and the London Development Agency, to account.

Our London Assembly seat covers the boroughs of Wandsworth and Merton. It's currently a Tory-held marginal, but the Conservative Assembly member is retiring.