WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on the south Londoner who wants to take on Labour at City Hall
James Cleverly has resigned from Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet in order to seek selection as the Conservative Party’s candidate for London Mayor in 2028.
Labour’s Sadiq Khan, now Lord Khan of Tooting, has been Mayor of London since 2016. It is not yet know whether Mayor Khan will seek an unprecedented fourth term in two years.
Born to run: James Cleverly has resigned from the shadow cabinet
Since the Greater London Authority was founded in 2000, the Tories have only held the capital’s mayoralty for eight years, through Boris Johnson between 2008 and 2016.
Polling conducted this month placed the Tories in third place in London, with Labour on a commanding (by recent standards) 33%, with Reform Ltd on 20%, the Conservatives on 18%, the Greens on 14% and LibDems 10%. Continue reading
The borough’s Conservative Mayor, rendered impotent by the presence of government Commissioners, has spent much of the summer conducting some personal political campaigning, all paid for by tax-payers, that is often deliberately misleading, that sometimes gaslights residents and, very often, is simply untrue.
Crystal Palace play their first home game of the Premier League season against Manchester City tonight. The atmosphere at Selhurst Park will be different.
“For more than 20 years, the HF has stood on the Holmesdale and travelled across the country and beyond supporting this great football club.
INSIDE CROYDON INVESTIGATES: The Conservative MP for Croydon South is the subject of at least two complaints to Parliament’s Standards Commissioner, following a report published by Inside Croydon earlier this month, over what appear to be long-delayed declarations of financial interests
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Archive newspaper reports of a burglary on Church Street in 1861 provide a useful insight into the possessions of a Victorian household, as DAVID MORGAN explains
