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Labour and materials inflation have pushed the Silvertown Tunnel project £13m over budget, Transport for London has said. A report to its programmes and

Tunnel-boring work on Transport for London’s controversial Silvertown tunnel has begun. Work on the cross-river tunnel, which will stretch 1.4km,

He risks ruining his legacy for a project that will bring more pollution to some of London’s worst-hit areas, says Diyora Shadijanova

London mayor Sadiq Khan has doubled-down on the “urgent need” for the Silvertown Tunnel after Labour MPs voted for it to be cancelled. At the London Labour Conference this weekend a motion against the Silvertown Tunnel was carried after 74% of London’s Labour MPs, London Assembly members and councillors backed it. The motion calls for Khan to cancel the project on environmental grounds. It adds: “If Labour are truly committed to clean air and tackling climate change there is no justification for the tunnel.” However, a spokesperson for the mayor stressed that there was an urgent nee...

The spend represents a £50M increase in TfL spending on the project in the three months since the last Committee meeting took place in February. A TfL