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Eric Francis Manu · For Mayor of London 2028

THE FIRST

100 DAYS

LISTEN. ACT. DELIVER.

A hundred days is not long enough to fix London. It is exactly long enough to prove I meant what I said.

Nobody solves this city in a hundred days. Any candidate who tells you otherwise is asking you to believe something they do not believe themselves.
But a hundred days is long enough to show you how I would govern. To say plainly what comes first. To start delivery instead of announcing it. And to put accountability in place early, while the promises are still fresh enough for people to remember them.

A plan with dates against it. A public scoreboard at the end of it.

DAYS 1–30

Listen

You cannot lead a city you have not heard.
DAYS 31–60

Act

Then we move on the thing I will be judged on.
DAYS 61–100

Deliver

Nine commitments. All of them live inside 100 days.
DAYS 1–30

Listen

You cannot lead a city you have not heard.

On day one we convene the London Listening Council. Built deliberately, not gathered from whoever answers the phone.

Every London borough.

No borough treated as a rounding error because of how it voted.

Outer London, properly weighted.

Not an afterthought, and not a minority voice at its own table.

Young people in the room, not on the agenda.

Under-25s sitting as members, not thanked for ten minutes at the end.

Small businesses.

The shop with one till and the firm with four vans — the people who employ this city and get consulted last.

The voices that rarely arrive.

Carers, shift workers, care leavers, disabled Londoners, faith and community groups.

Thirty days before a single promise hardens.

That is not delay. That is the job.
DAYS 31–60

Act

Then we move on the thing I will be judged on.

We launch the London Youth Opportunity Programme — because talent is spread evenly across this city and opportunity is not.

One table, everyone at it.

Employers, colleges, universities, apprenticeship providers, charities and City Hall — people who have worked on the same problem in separate rooms for twenty years.

We map what already exists.

City Hall is not starting from zero. The failure is not absence. It is that a sixteen-year-old in Barking cannot name a single scheme built to help them, and neither can the employers meant to hire them.

We recover the opportunity being lost.

Apprenticeship funding sits unused while young Londoners look for a way in. City Hall should be the bridge between the two.

We publish the baseline.

On the record, on day sixty, so everything after it is measured against something real.

I know what one door is worth.

Mine was a driving licence and a college in Barking.
DAYS 61–100

Deliver

Nine commitments. All of them live inside 100 days.

Each one carries a definition of done, so that “delivered” is not a matter of opinion.
01

London Opportunity Charter

One standard any employer in this city can sign. Pay your interns. Open your doors. Say so in public.
02

London Youth Employment Partnership

Employers, education and City Hall meeting permanently. Not a summit. Not a photograph.
03

Opportunity Map

One public map of where the jobs, the training and the transport actually are. And where they are not.
04

Outer London Opportunity Plan

London does not end at Zone 3. Opportunity should not either.
05

London Small Business Charter

The woman with one shop and the man with one van employ this city. Practical help, plainly stated.
06

Safer Neighbourhoods Review

Borough by borough, written with the people who live on those streets rather than about them.
07

Transport Opportunity Review

One question, asked everywhere: can a young person here reach a job, a college or an interview?
08

Housing Delivery Review

An honest account of what can genuinely be built, by whom. No fantasy numbers.
09

Londoners’ Accountability Dashboard

Every promise on this page, in public, with a date against it.

The Accountability Dashboard

The promise that costs a politician something.

PROMISED

→

STARTED

→

DELIVERED
Every commitment on this page goes onto one public website. A deadline. A named owner. A status. An update. Anyone can check any promise at any time, without asking us and without waiting for a press release.
It will record what most campaigns bury: what has slipped, why it slipped, and what has been dropped altogether.

A campaign that only reports its wins is not being accountable. It is advertising.

What I Can Lead — and What Needs Partnership

Londoners have been promised things by people who did not have the power to deliver them. I am not going to add to that.
WHAT THE MAYOR LEADS
  • Transport, through TfL
  • Policing priorities
  • Skills funding devolved to City Hall
  • Planning strategy and City Hall land
  • Air quality and the environment
WHAT NEEDS EVERYBODY ELSE
  • Government sets the funding
  • Boroughs decide most planning and run most youth services
  • The police are operationally independent
  • The NHS runs clinical care
  • Employers own the jobs; colleges own the training

A Mayor who claims to control all of this is either misinformed or misleading you.

My job is to lead what I can lead, and to be relentless with everyone else — in public, on the record, with the dashboard showing exactly who is holding what up.
Scrutiny

The London Assembly

London already has a body whose job is to hold the Mayor to account.

Most candidates treat scrutiny as weather to be endured. I intend to treat it as the point.

I will answer in person. I will give the Assembly’s committees what they ask for rather than the minimum that satisfies the request. And the dashboard will be public before anyone has to ask for it.
Scrutiny that depends on somebody prising information out of City Hall is not scrutiny. It is a negotiation.

My Six Priorities for London

All six matter. All six start on day one.
01

Youth Employment, Skills & Opportunity

My signature focus. Judge me hardest on this.
02

Housing & Cost of Living

03

Safer Communities & Crime

04

Transport & Connectivity

05

Jobs, Investment & London’s Economy

06

A Cleaner, Greener, More Connected London

Youth employment is my signature focus because it is the one I know from the inside — not because a family waiting for a safe street, an affordable home or a bus that turns up matters less.
And where things are working in this city, I will say so. Being credible means being willing to give credit.

Why Me

I am not asking you to trust a speech.

I cleaned this city’s offices at night. I cared for its elderly in their own homes. I worked security shifts until morning and walked its streets for a living. I studied through all of it, built businesses, taught, mentored and sat as a school governor.
None of that was the plan. It was what honest work looked like while I was building towards something else.
Which is why I believe what I believe about opportunity. It is not charity, and it is not a scheme with a logo. It is a door — and somebody already standing at it, ready, usually waiting far longer than they should have to.
I was that person. One door opened, and everything after it followed.
So when I talk about a bus fare, a shift that finishes at four in the morning, or a young person with nobody to ring, I am not working from a briefing note. I am describing my own twenties.
And I know exactly what changes on the day somebody opens the door. That is the whole of my politics.
LISTEN. ACT. DELIVER.

Ask me on Day 101 — not what I promised, but what I delivered.

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