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The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds supermajority, to amend the mayor's annual budget and to reject the mayor's draft statutory strategies. The London Assembly was established in 2000. It is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners, publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to the mayor.
One Assembly member, Jenny Jones, was elevated to the House of Lords as the Green Party's first life peer in 2013, continuing to sit in the Assembly until May 2016. Sally Hamwee, Graham Tope, and Toby Harris were already peers when elected to the assembly, while Lynne Featherstone and Dee Doocey were created life peers after standing down from the Assembly.
Val Shawcross, AM for Lambeth and Southwark, unsuccessfully contested Bermondsey and Old Southwark as the Labour parliamentary candidate at the 2010 general election, and Navin Shah stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate for Harrow East in 2017. Andrew Dismore, Graham Tope, and the late Richard Tracey are all former MPs later elected to the assembly. John Biggs, formerly AM for City and East, served as the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets from 2015 until 2022.
In December 2016, an Electoral Reform Bill was introduced which would have changed the election system to first-past-the-post. At the 2017 general election, the Conservative Party manifesto proposed changing how the Assembly is elected to first-past-the-post.
However, since the general election of 2017, which resulted in a hung Parliament with the Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party in a confidence and supply arrangement, no action has been taken with regard to the electoral arrangements of the London Assembly, and the 2020 election, delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was held on the current electoral system of AMS (constituencies and regional lists).
| Labour | 9 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | ||
| Conservative | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | ||
| Green | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Reform UK | style="text-align: right" | style="text-align: right" | style="text-align: right" | style="text-align: right" | style="text-align: right" | 0 | 2 | ||
| UKIP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | style="text-align: right" | style="text-align: center" | |
| BNP | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | style="text-align: right" | style="text-align: right" | style="text-align: center" |
On 12 December 2018, following Peter Whittle's departure from UKIP, he and David Kurten disbanded the UKIP grouping and formed the Brexit Alliance group.
In March 2019, following the departure of Tom Copley and Fiona Twycross to take up full-time Deputy Mayor roles, Murad Qureshi and Alison Moore replaced them as Labour Assembly members. The end of the term in office for AMs was extended from May 2020 to May 2021, as no elections were being held during the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Barnet and Camden | ||
| Bexley and Bromley | ||
| Brent and Harrow | ||
| City and East | ||
| Croydon and Sutton | ||
| Ealing and Hillingdon | ||
| Enfield and Haringey | ||
| Greenwich and Lewisham | ||
| Havering and Redbridge | ||
| Lambeth and Southwark | ||
| Merton and Wandsworth | ||
| North East | ||
| South West | ||
| West Central | ||
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| Shaun Bailey | ||
[[File:London Assembly composition.png|thumb|1000px|center| Composition of London Assembly, 2000 – 2021
Green Party Labour Party Liberal Democrats Conservative Party UKIP BNP ]]
| + Chairs of the assembly | |||
| Trevor Phillips | May 2000 | May 2001 | |
| Sally Hamwee | May 2001 | May 2002 | |
| Trevor Phillips | May 2002 | February 2003 | |
| Sally Hamwee | February 2003 | May 2004 | |
| Brian Coleman | May 2004 | May 2005 | |
| Sally Hamwee | May 2005 | May 2006 | |
| Brian Coleman | May 2006 | May 2007 | |
| Sally Hamwee | May 2007 | May 2008 | |
| Jennette Arnold | May 2008 | May 2009 | |
| Darren Johnson | May 2009 | May 2010 | |
| Dee Doocey | May 2010 | May 2011 | |
| Jennette Arnold | May 2011 | May 2013 | |
| Darren Johnson | May 2013 | May 2014 | |
| Roger Evans | May 2014 | May 2015 | |
| Jennette Arnold | May 2015 | May 2016 | |
| Tony Arbour | May 2016 | May 2017 | |
| Jennette Arnold | May 2017 | May 2018 | |
| Tony Arbour | May 2018 | May 2019 | |
| Jennette Arnold | May 2019 | May 2020 | |
| Navin Shah | May 2020 | May 2021 | |
| Andrew Boff | May 2021 | May 2022 | |
| Onkar Sahota | May 2022 | May 2023 | |
| Andrew Boff | May 2023 | May 2025 | |
| Len Duvall | May 2025 | Incumbent |
The Police and Crime Committee was set up under the terms of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 in order to scrutinise the work of Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, which replaced the Metropolitan Police Authority.
Ashan Khehra served as Chair of the London Youth Assembly (LYA) between 2024-25.He was elected unanimously in April 2024. He previously served as the LYA Member for Hounslow. Khehra has oversaw efforts to re-establish the Assembly following a period of inactivity. During his tenure, the LYA introduced several new initiatives, including the London Youth Achievement Awards, developed in partnership with the London Assembly to mark its 25th anniversary. He also implemented a shadow cabinet within the Assembly, intended to provide a structured way for young people to engage with and contribute to discussions on city-level policy. The current Chair is Hugo Maxwell who is the LYAM for Bromley.
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