ELECTION EXCLUSIVE: Less than 48 hours before he was due to be unveiled at the Fairfield Halls as his party’s pick to head their campaign in Croydon, Dan Milner-Tebbutt resigned. Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reveals his replacement, another Conservative defector to the party of grifters
Just hours after this website published its report about Daniel Tebbutt switching roles at Croydon Reform, standing down as chair of the local party in order to take on a “new role”, than Dan Milner-Tebbutt (as he is now known following his recent marriage) announced on social media that he was resigning as the party’s candidate for Croydon Mayor.
Campaign in disarray: Nigel Farage’s party is on to its fourth mayoral candidate in barely a year
Reform’s grifter-in-chief Nigel Farage is expected in Croydon tomorrow, for a “walkabout” at Central Parade in New Addington from 3pm, before a £5-a-ticket “rally” at the council-owned arts centre, the Fairfield Halls.
There, Farage is to launch his party’s London local election campaign, and was also expected to reveal the identity of their Croydon mayoral candidate.
But with the party’s ratings in the polls slipping, and problems in finding people to stand as local election candidates, tomorrow Farage will arrive in a borough where Reform is in a state of disarray, its social media presence having been erased completely and around 10 of their selected council election candidates having quit, in addition to Milner-Tebbutt.
Reform Ltd in Croydon is now on to its fourth mayoral candidate in little more than a year, although the latest one does appear to have a pulse. Continue reading
ELECTION SKETCH: In a cramped ‘hub’ in Broad Green, the first full hustings of the 2026 Croydon Mayor campaign took place last night. KEN TOWL was there, so you didn’t need to be (and you couldn’t have squeezed in, anyway)
Just five days before their party leader is expected at the Fairfield Halls for a rally to be attended by “thousands” (in a Concert Hall with a capacity of fewer than 1,800), and Reform Ltd in Croydon has changed their local chair for the third time in barely nine months.
HOOK’S SHOT: The wickets have been rolled, the stumps varnished and bats oiled with linseed. From his seat in The Oval Long Room, MARCUS HOOK, pictured right, looks ahead to the cricket season
Reform UK could win eight or nine council seats in May’s local elections in Croydon, mostly from the Tories. And they could scupper the Conservative Mayor’s re-election bid. But gormless Jason Perry won’t cancel Nigel Farage’s booking at the Fairfield Halls.
Six weeks out from the local elections, the government has published a damning report from its Commissioners at Croydon Council which is hugely critical of failed Mayor Jason Perry and council bosses Katherine Kerswell and her successor as chief executive, Eliane Jackson.
Inside Croydon subscriber Ben Clarke is the lucky winner of a free family ticket to visit the Bluebell in Lavenderland experience at its Epsom site.
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Adelaide Hall performed at the Cotton Club, sang with Duke Ellington and took to the stage in the Berlin of Sally Bowles. And she was a star of the old Croydon Empire, as DAVID MORGAN explains 
The art of the deal: what is Perry hiding over Veolia contract?
Cheeky truckers: the rules banning pavement parking don’t seem to apply to Veolia. But then, there’s many rules that don’t seem to apply to Croydon’s rubbish contractors
TONY HOOKER, of the voluntary organisation Litter Free Norbury, pictured, wants to know why
Nearly a year after Croydon’s new waste collection contract came into force, the council has still not published the agreement.
Waste collection affects every household in Croydon and represents a major area of council spending. Yet despite repeated requests, the full contract — including service standards, performance targets and penalties — remains withheld from the public, 12 months since it came into force. Continue reading →
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