And they will be answering the questions put by YOU, the readers of Inside Croydon.
The team at Inside Croydon is staging the borough’s first Digital Debate – less a conventional, old-style (and, frankly, often desperately dull) hustings, and more like a lively round-table debate of old-school Question Time when Robin Day or David Dimbleby were in charge.
Chairing the discussion will be broadcaster and journalist Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, supported by other Inside Croydon contributors.
All the leading candidates standing for election as Croydon Mayor on May 7 have been invited.
So: after four years of Conservative Mayor Jason Perry, record levels of borrowing, record levels of fly-tipping and record levels of Council Tax and Council Tax hikes, what questions do you want to put to the candidates seeking to run Croydon Town Hall until 2030?
Three of the candidates – Labour’s Rowenna Davis, Richard Howard of the Liberal Democrats and Peter Underwood from the Green Party – have already been subjected to questioning by iC’s columnist, Andrew Fisher.
Now, it’s your turn, as we prepare to release the Digital Debate as a podcast for all our readers to listen to and assess ahead of election day on May 7.
With postal votes dropping through letterboxes from Crystal Palace to Coulsdon this week, you will want to hold on to your decision until you hear what the candidates have to say in Inside Croydon’s Digital Debate.
How to submit your questions
Submitting a question is quick and easy. All questions will be properly considered by our editorial panel, for relevance, broad interest and insight. You can submit up to two questions.
Just email your question(s) together with your name (no anonymous trolls here, please!) contact address and mobile phone number, to inside.croydon@btinternet.com, with the words “DIGITAL DEBATE” in the subject field.
Get your questions to us before our deadline of 5pm this Wednesday, April 22.
- Paid-up subscribers to this website can listen to The Andrew Fisher Interview with Labour’s Rowenna Davis by clicking here
- You can listen to our interview with the LibDems’ Richard Howard by clicking here
- To listen to the Green Party’s Peter Underwood interview, click here. If you are not already an Inside Croydon Patreon subscriber, you can sign up immediately
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