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In today’s newsletter: Black professors make up less than 1% of science academics – will a new Royal Society scheme address the imbalance?

The one-time figurehead of the Labour left is being ‘well cared for by his family and friends’

PA looks at the key moments in the former London mayor’s life.

The retired 78-year-old former MP is ‘being well cared for by his family and friends’, his family announced

The candidate’s team said it was a ‘desperate smear and complete mischaracterisation’

At last, the Tories have produced their candidate for next year’s mayoral election. Susan Hall is the woman. She is not, even in London, a household name. She has undoubted local government experience, being until recently head of the City Hall Conservatives, but what is striking about this contest was…

First female general secretary of the Labour party who played a key role in the 1997 landslide election victory

A Tory barrister who is battling to become the party’s London mayoral candidate broke down in tears as he told how he had been inspired by his mother’s death to run for City Hall.

Daniel Korski said he would implement a new tourist tax to pay for more police in the capital.