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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