Category Archives: Sarah Jones MP

East Croydon bridge to open in October, as MP fails to update

Posted on March 11, 2025 by insidecroydon

East Croydon Station’s Bridge to Nowhere is expected to be open, and finally allow pedestrians to go somewhere, in October. That’s according to Jeet Bains, the council cabinet member for planning and regeneration, in a speech at a Town Hall … Continue reading →

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MP Jones issues correction on her inaccurate claim on growth

Posted on March 4, 2025 by insidecroydon

Sarah Jones, the Labour MP for Croydon West, has had her work in Parliament as the government’s industry minister given an ‘F’ grade, after she made a false claim in the House of Commons. The AI-powered truth checker Full Fact … Continue reading →

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Hastings councillor offers a way through the political brambles

Posted on February 24, 2025 by insidecroydon

How should we counter the rise of the far-right? As KEN TOWL found out when he arrived on time at the Croydon School of Philosophy, by offering some truth and understanding In the School of Philosophy on Addiscombe Grove, not … Continue reading →

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Age UK calls for Mayor Khan to act against Post Office closures

Posted on January 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

The charity Age UK has joined the campaign to save London’s Post Offices – including the under-threat counter service provided on Croydon High Street. The Post Office closure plans were revealed in November, with 115 Crown Post Offices to close … Continue reading →

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Yes we CAN? Four MPs lobbied to support vital climate Bill

Posted on January 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

Residents who have become increasingly concerned about the climate emergency have taken their protests to the doorsteps of Croydon’s four MPs. Campaigners from the Croydon Green Network rounded off their lobbying by meeting Croydon East MP Natasha Irons, ahead of … Continue reading →

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MP Jones’s Swiss role has her missing Ruskin House karaoke

Posted on January 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

Organisers of a Croydon Labour fund-raising karaoke night to be staged at Ruskin House have said privately that they are “disappointed” that Croydon West MP Sarah Jones will be giving the event a miss, after she jetted out to Davos … Continue reading →

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MP Jones ‘deeply concerned’ at council cuts to youth service

Posted on January 8, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: While Jason Perry, Croydon’s part-time Mayor, recommends a pay rise for himself, he’s cutting a youth service in what has been described as a ‘stealthy’ move, one which could have ‘catastrophic’ consequences. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Services, Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon West, Fieldway, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington North, New Addington South, Sarah Jones MP, South Norwood, Youth Services | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

All Croydon’s MPs vote for controversial Assisted Dying Bill

Posted on November 30, 2024 by insidecroydon

Film star Adam Pearson says he is ‘heartbroken’ by Commons vote: ‘We have a government who are willing to help disabled people die whilst doing nothing to help them live’ All four of Croydon’s MPs – three Labour, one Conservative … Continue reading →

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Just 2% of Croydon voters join petition call for another election

Posted on November 26, 2024 by insidecroydon

Tax-avoiding millionaires and newspaper owners are getting all excited about calls for another election. The same people who have said it’s too soon for another vote on Brexit, reports WALTER CRONXITE, political editor A petition raised by a publican in … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Post Office closure deals new blow for Croydon High Street

Posted on November 13, 2024 by insidecroydon

Union boss describes closures plan by scandal-hit business as ‘immoral’, as 115 Crown Post Offices are to go and 1,000 workers face redundancy In the latest low blow to blighted Croydon High Street, the Post Office has this morning confirmed … Continue reading →

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Keir Starmer! Steve Reed! Come on down! The price is right!

Posted on October 11, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the new government under Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney reaches its 100-day milestone, former Labour councillor BRIAN FINEGAN shares his perspective Harold Wilson famously declared that the Labour Party “is a moral crusade or it is nothing”. … Continue reading →

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Gifts, car crash interviews and Starmer’s banger of a speech

Posted on September 26, 2024 by insidecroydon

After a week going through the debates and expenses declarations at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool, ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, analyses the performances of the MPs who represent Croydon It should have been an uplifting and upbeat affair: the … Continue reading →

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All aboard the gravy train! Next stop: poll for South Norwood

Posted on July 26, 2024 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Streatham and Croydon North MP’s parliamentary aide gets one of the jobs for the boys, and girls, as SPAD appointments are doled out. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Residents in South Norwood will be asked to go to the … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s MPs vote to keep the Tories’ two-child benefit cap

Posted on July 24, 2024 by insidecroydon

For some new MPs, last night was the first time they got to vote in the House of Commons. Croydon’s Labour MPs voted to support Tory policies that condemn more than 3,000 households in the borough to remain in poverty. … Continue reading →

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After ‘The Croydon Effect’ comes Labour’s ‘The Thin Mandate’

Posted on July 10, 2024 by insidecroydon

So what’s next? How does last Thursday’s voting at the General Election pan out for Croydon’s part-time Mayor? WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, crunches some figures Croydon’s residents may well be relieved, delighted even, that apart from the possible, occasional local … Continue reading →

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Reed and Jones are handed jobs in Starmer’s new government

Posted on July 8, 2024 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the roles given to Croydon’s Labour MPs following last week’s General Election While the messaging out of Whitehall was of fast, decisive action by the new government on a number of headline issues – scrapping … Continue reading →

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#GeneralElection2024: final results for Croydon constituencies

Posted on July 5, 2024 by insidecroydon

Following our full and detailed live coverage of election night, here are the full, formal results from the General Election for Croydon’s seats.

Posted in 2024 General Election, Ben Taylor, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Croydon West, Lambeth Council, Natasha Irons, Peter Underwood, Ria Patel, Sarah Jones MP, Scott Ainslie, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

#GeneralElection2024: Through-the-night results coverage

Posted on July 4, 2024 by insidecroydon

#GE2024: HERE WE GO Welcome to Inside Croydon’s unmatched coverage of the 2024 General Election results night for south London. Working with our colleagues at GreenwichWire, we have reporters and citizen journalists at the counts in Croydon (natch), Sutton, Brixton … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024 General Election, Ben Taylor, Bexley, Bromley Council, Carshalton and Wallington, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Croydon West, Elliot Colburn, Lambeth Council, Luke Taylor MP, Natasha Irons, Outside Croydon, Peter Underwood, Reigate and Banstead Council, Ria Patel, Sarah Jones MP, Scott Ainslie, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 22 Comments

Can you vote for politicians who won’t answer your questions?

Posted on July 3, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON ELECTION QUESTIONS For this General Election, Inside Croydon offered a platform to candidates from across the political spectrum, from across the borough’s four constituencies. Much the same questions, their answers to be published at length. But some of the … Continue reading →

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Desperate times, desperate measures: PM Sunak visits Purley

Posted on July 3, 2024 by insidecroydon

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: They thought it was some kind of secret liaison at their local HQ in Purley. But WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, reports on the last roll of the dice by Croydon’s Tory MP Photos: GEORGE BURDICK and HUNTER SQUIRES … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024 General Election, Ben Taylor, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Purley, Sanderstead, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 24 Comments

Latest poll predicts the implausible with Philp doing Houdini act

Posted on June 24, 2024 by insidecroydon

Labour candidates have been briefed to say nothing or to claim ‘Nuffink to do wiv me, Guv’ is their best way of dodging questions about their party’s bankrupting the borough, as the campaign crawls its way towards its final week. … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024 General Election, Andrew Pelling, Ben Taylor, Bobby Dean, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Ellie Reeves MP, Elliot Colburn, Luke Taylor MP, Natasha Irons, Paul Scully MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sutton and Cheam | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Labour’s Jones took donation from fossil fuel PR lobbyists

Posted on June 22, 2024 by insidecroydon

There’s more than a sniff of sleaze about a donation accepted by one of Croydon Labour’s parliamentary candidates from lobbyists for vested interests in the fuel industry, reports STEVEN DOWNES Decarbonisation, you say? How about a donation from lobbyists who … Continue reading →

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Starmer’s a no-show for Labour’s secretive Fairfield Halls rally

Posted on June 20, 2024 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, wasted his morning turning up to see the son of a toolmaker, who swerved at the first sign of awkward questions and so missed out on seeing the mess made of Croydon by his Labour … Continue reading →

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Poundshop politician who puts the ‘sham’ into shambolic

Posted on June 18, 2024 by insidecroydon

ELECTION SKETCH: It was billed as a ‘hustings’, but was really nothing other than a rally for fringe party TTIP’s star candidate. KEN TOWL went along, so that you – and hundreds of others – didn’t have to “Somebody at … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024 General Election, Croydon West, Donna Murray-Turner, Ken Towl, Marley King, Sarah Jones MP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Voters being taken for granted as ‘battleground’ moves south

Posted on June 18, 2024 by insidecroydon

As postal voters start to receive their ballot papers ahead of the General Election on July 4, others in parts of Croydon are beginning to feel that their votes are being taken for granted by Tories and Labour, as our … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Jason Cummings, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments