A team of councillors vowed to fight an A&E closure at Downing Street earlier today.

A cross-party delegation of councillors from Redbridge, Havering and Barking & Dagenham handed in a letter to Downing Street at 12pm calling on the Prime Minister to intervene to save King George A&E in Goodmayes.

Cllr Wes Streeting, deputy leader of Redbridge council and cabinet member for health attended alongside Conservative leader Cllr Paul Canal.

Cllr Streeting said: "So long as the A&E closure plan remains on the table, I will continue to fight tooth and nail to oppose them. Politicians in Westminster should be under no illusions about the strength of feeling locally."

However in response this week, clinical commissioning groups in these boroughs refused to budge on plans to centralise A&E services at Queen’s Hospital in Romford.

A spokesman for the groups said the closure will go ahead when it is deemed safe to do so.