Category Archives: Andrew Fisher

Evans appointment to Labour top job ‘could tear party apart’

Posted on May 27, 2020 by

David Evans, the Croydon-based political consultant, was last night named as the new general secretary of the Labour Party. The outcome of the vote of the National Executive Committee is seen as another success for party leader Sir Keir Starmer, … Continue reading →

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Corbyn’s ex-aide Fisher: the leadership race is down to two

Posted on February 11, 2020 by

Until December, ANDREW FISHER (pictured left) was Jeremy Corbyn’s senior policy adviser. A member of Croydon Central Constituency Labour Party, over the weekend Fisher reflected on how he sees the outcome of his local members’ vote in the selection process … Continue reading →

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South Norwood’s Andrew Fisher resigns as Corbyn aide

Posted on September 22, 2019 by

Andrew Fisher, the influential policy adviser to the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and the author of the Labour’s widely admired 2017 For The Many Not The Few manifesto, is standing down from his position, in the latest shock … Continue reading →

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Corbyn aide enters row over Lewis Hamilton’s tax record

Posted on December 17, 2018 by

Andrew Fisher, the chief policy adviser to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, last night jumped into the simmering row about the BBC’s annual sports review show by suggesting that if Lewis Hamilton wants to win Sports Personality of the Year, … Continue reading →

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We don’t want to deselect Progress MP Reed say Momentum

Posted on September 10, 2018 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on backing for Croydon North’s centrist MP from a surprising source Steve Reed OBE must have had a relaxed weekend after he received a ringing endorsement of his position as MP for Croydon North from the … Continue reading →

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Stormzy enters the political charts – though not at No1

Posted on October 2, 2017 by

What does it say about the borough’s MPs and other elected politicians when they fail to make it on to an annual political listical which does manage to include a policy adviser and a grime star? WALTER CRONXITE reports Three … Continue reading →

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Croydon Labour bricking it over Corbyn’s housing policies

Posted on September 28, 2017 by

Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on a game-changer for council homes announced at the Labour Party conference Tony Newman and the leadership of Croydon’s Labour-run council could be on a collision course with their party over their controversial Brick by Brick … Continue reading →

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Labour pains as rival right-wing groups cling to control

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE on the north-south divide over candidate selection for next year’s council elections A war of words has broken out between rival right-wingers in Croydon’s Labour Party, as they fight to retain positions, patronage and power following their stunning … Continue reading →

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May’s Chief of Staff was the author of his own election obituary

Posted on June 14, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE has drilled down into the election numbers (well, Electoral Calculus has), and come up with some worrying figures for Croydon Tories It wasn’t only Gavin Barwell who got his P45 from his Westminster job last week. And while … Continue reading →

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Corbyn policy aide Andrew Fisher: ‘We changed politics’

Posted on June 12, 2017 by

Andrew Fisher, the former union official from Croydon who has been working as Jeremy Corbyn’s policy adviser for the past two years, says that many of the “political myths” of the 1990s have been laid to rest. “Socialist politics have … Continue reading →

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Corbyn: ‘There’s a state of emergency in our local services’

Posted on February 18, 2017 by

Today, JEREMY CORBYN, pictured right, the Labour leader, delivered a speech to his party’s local government conference in Coventry. This is the script of that speech, that we reproduce here largely because it probably won’t be published or broadcast much … Continue reading →

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‘I’m not influential’ says influential Labour figure

Posted on September 28, 2016 by

Andrew Fisher, the Croydon resident who is policy adviser to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said that his ranking as the ninth most influential figure on the left is “obviously nonsense”. But as Corbyn’s speech to the Labour Party Conference … Continue reading →

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Progress MP Reed can’t make Top 100 ‘figures of the left’

Posted on September 24, 2016 by

A Croydon political thinker and activist who survived an attempt to have him kicked out of the Labour Party is included in the top 10 of a respected political commentator’s “100 Most Influential People On The Left”, published ahead of … Continue reading →

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Corbyn supporters in Croydon Labour continue to be purged

Posted on September 18, 2016 by

With a matter of days to go until voting closes in the latest phase of the never-ending Labour leadership contest, and the purge of Corbyn supporters within the Croydon Labour Party continues, with members suspended and told that their votes … Continue reading →

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No joke: Croydon comedian Steel reads the bans for Labour

Posted on September 10, 2016 by

Mark Steel, the stand-up comedian and broadcaster from Croydon who was barred from joining the Labour Party because of his support for another political group nearly a decade ago, has called for some Labour MPs to be banned for supporting … Continue reading →

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‘Desperate’ Reed resorts to data-scraping to get desired result

Posted on July 29, 2016 by

First, he refused to speak to the members about the Labour leadership at his constituency party’s annual meeting. Then, he took part in a visit to central Croydon with Owen Smith, the challenger to Jeremy Corbyn, but didn’t bother to … Continue reading →

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Loyalty will be up for debate when Philp takes on Benn again

Posted on December 27, 2015 by

It’s The Posh-Off II: The Re-match. Chris Philp, now the Tory MP for Croydon South, is again to take on The Honorable Emily Benn at the Coulsdon and Purley Debating Society in its first event of 2016, on a somewhat … Continue reading →

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Fisher’s suspension lifted but the Progress purge continues

Posted on November 27, 2015 by

The Labour Party this afternoon announced that it had lifted the suspension on Andrew Fisher, the socialist author and party member from Croydon who has been appointed as policy adviser to Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader. The decision is likely … Continue reading →

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Corbyn has ‘full confidence’ in aide, as Labour suspend Fisher

Posted on November 6, 2015 by

The Progress pogrom against Jeremy Corbyn claimed its first victim tonight, when Andrew Fisher, the Labour leader’s policy adviser, had his party membership suspended. Fisher, however, seems set to continue to work in Corbyn’s office and he confirmed to Inside … Continue reading →

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Shadow chancellor McDonnell backs council on Living Wage

Posted on November 5, 2015 by

John McDonnell, Labour’s shadow chancellor, paid a flying visit to the council this morning to endorse its work in making Croydon a Living Wage borough. After meeting the council leader, Tony Newman, and Labour councillors, McDonnell was taken on a … Continue reading →

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Now Umunna plays role of Labour’s witch-finder general

Posted on October 29, 2015 by

Fair is foul and foul is fair… STEVEN DOWNES on how the witch-hunt within the Labour Party is going in Croydon It’s not Halloween for a couple of days yet, but the Murdoch press has banded together with right-wingers who … Continue reading →

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Red Labour tells Emily Benn to drop Fisher expulsion call

Posted on October 27, 2015 by

A Labour members’ and campaigners’ grouping yesterday issued a statement where they said that they fear that Emily Benn, a West Thornton ward councillor, is “…being used by other, more sinister forces within the Parliamentary Party who are out to … Continue reading →

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Benn’s attempt at Labour purge highlights support for WEP

Posted on October 25, 2015 by

STEVEN DOWNES reports on how the Labour  parliamentary candidate in Croydon South has been breaking party rules by supporting political rivals Efforts by the Progress wing of the Lambeth South/Croydon Labour Party to de-stabilise Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership team could stumble … Continue reading →

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Shadow chancellor McDonnell to speak at Croydon Assembly

Posted on October 12, 2015 by

John McDonnell and Andrew Fisher, two key players within Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership team, are among the invited speakers at the third Croydon Assembly, to be staged at Ruskin House on November 7. Entitled “Fighting the Tories – a Manifesto … Continue reading →

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Undertones of McDonnell’s speech heard first in Croydon

Posted on September 28, 2015 by

If Inside Croydon‘s loyal reader thought that parts of the speech given at the Labour Party Conference today by John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor, sounded familiar, then they really ought not be surprised. Many of the thoughts behind the … Continue reading →

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