Who actually runs London (and why is it so complicated)?

Part one of our conversation with Jenna Goldberg from the London Communications Agency

Do you know who your ward councillors are? Do you even know what a ward councillors is? Do you know what powers they hold or why you should speak to them and not your local MP? What about your London Assembly Members?

If you subscribe to this newsletter then there’s a good chance you might know something about how London is run and who looks after your particular bit of it. But it’s definitely not as simple as it should be.

To try and untangle that question of who runs the city we live in, we spoke to someone whose job it is to navigate that world. Jenna Goldberg has been working at the London Communications agency for 13 years now, leading communications on major regeneration projects across the city and writing the LCA’s newsletter LDN – London in Short.

This is the first part of our chat with Jenna. In part two we go into a bit more about how London is changing, how the relationship between the public, property developers and local councils has shifted over recent years, and of course…