Columnist ANDREW FISHER, in his monthly podcast, sits down with the Green Party’s mayoral candidate for the latest in our series of in-depth interviews with the candidates at next month’s Town Hall elections
One of the candidates for Croydon Mayor has told Inside Croydon that, if elected, he will abolish the £210,000 role of council chief executive.
In our latest podcast with the leading candidates for Mayor in Town Hall elections on May 7, the Green Party’s Peter Underwood tells Andrew Fisher that, if he is elected, he’d work to abolish the role of directly elected Mayor itself.
This month’s Andrew Fisher Interview talks at length with Peter Underwood, the veteran environmentalist and Green Party activist, who believes that the momentum behind his party from new leader Zack Polanski, following the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election, will help to propel him and his party closer to elected office in Croydon than ever before.
“I’d say it wouldn’t be a shock,” Underwood says. Continue reading
Nominations for candidates for the May 7 local elections close later today, and the final forms will include independents and single candidates from new parties looking to win a seat at the Town Hall.
Your Party, the leftist grouping backed by several MPs and led in Parliament by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has announced its candidate for the local elections in Croydon next month.
The price of almost everything has gone up lately. From energy bills to the weekly food shop, households across the UK are feeling the squeeze. This financial pressure is having a major impact on the motor industry. Many people who might have considered a newer or higher-spec model are now rethinking what they can realistically afford.
With Croydon’s Town Hall elections to be held one month today, one mayoral candidate has been ordered to censor her election brochure by party bosses, with MP Reed suspected of being behind move.
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If you have not yet received a polling card, or if you know you are not yet registered to vote, you still have time to register as a voter to have your say in who Croydon’s executive Mayor will be between now and 2030, and to elect up to three councillors for the area where you live.
