Category Archives: David Evans

Barrister Forde: Labour Party has ignored my report on racism

Posted on March 18, 2023 by insidecroydon
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Company founded by Labour’s Evans under threat of strike off

Posted on March 6, 2023 by insidecroydon

While the quality of the management of the Labour Party by its General Secretary David Evans remains hotly disputed among those on the left, the public relations consultancy he established just more than 20 years ago, The Campaign Company, looks … Continue reading →

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Grey man’s appointment places Gray with Croydon clique

Posted on March 4, 2023 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE delves into the shadowy south London connections that Sue Gray will encounter when she starts work as the Labour leader’s Chief of Staff The grey man of British politics, the terminally boring Keir Starmer, now has … Continue reading →

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Labour makes itself a laughing stock with Croydon tweet

Posted on December 6, 2022 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on a massive gaffe by party staff in London, who seem to have forgotten the omnishambles caused by their colleagues when in charge in Croydon The Labour Party in London has made itself the subject … Continue reading →

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‘No records’ after council hired Starmer ally to advise leader

Posted on October 26, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mystery surrounds how a Labour figure with connections to David Evans was recruited to provide political advice when Hamida Ali took charge of Croydon Council – because no one kept any records. Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, … Continue reading →

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#TheLabourFiles: Source of hacked data worked for Evans

Posted on October 25, 2022 by insidecroydon

Further links to the Labour Party’s General Secretary have been confirmed since Al Jazeera broadcast The Spying Game documentary. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Further investigations since Al Jazeera broadcast their documentary “The Spying Game” have discovered that the person who … Continue reading →

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#TheLabourFiles: It’s long past time to clean-up the Party

Posted on October 6, 2022 by insidecroydon

Former Labour staffer ANDREW FISHER reflects on what Al Jazeera’s series The Labour Files revealed about his former employers and the party of which he has been a member for 26 years “Poly-ticks”, according to Rowan Atkinson’s Edmund Blackadder, is … Continue reading →

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‘Inside Croydon – The Movie’: Labour’s role in a hack attack

Posted on September 30, 2022 by insidecroydon



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TV investigation uncovers Labour Party’s dirty tricks and hacks

Posted on September 22, 2022 by insidecroydon

On the eve of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, a three-part television investigation is set to rock the party’s hierarchy, from General Secretary David Evans downwards, with many shocking revelations drawn from what the producers describe as “the biggest leak … Continue reading →

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Bonner replaces Reed’s ‘Bodger’ as Labour right keep tight grip

Posted on August 2, 2022 by insidecroydon

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the rearranging of the deckchairs after the party’s ship in Croydon has already sunk Carole Bonner, the former councillor and long-time loyalist of the discredited Tony Newman, is the new chair of the Croydon … Continue reading →

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Croydon May 2022 is writing on the wall for Starmer’s Labour

Posted on May 13, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: One week on from the election count that turned the council from merely a bankrupt borough into a national laughing stock, JIMMY BALDWIN adds his personal reflections on the events that took place at Trinity School from … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 council elections, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, David Evans, David White, Gavin Barwell, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Val Shawcross, Winston McKenzie | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Mayor candidate Shawcross’s ‘new’ direction not so new at all

Posted on April 20, 2022 by insidecroydon

Any ‘clean break’ with the incompetence and graft of the past at Croydon Town Hall that is being offered by Labour Mayoral candidate Val Shawcross appears doomed by her own campaign’s deep-rooted connections with discredited Tony Newman and some of … Continue reading →

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‘It’s an utter joke’: councillors unhappy at selection stitch-ups

Posted on March 21, 2022 by insidecroydon

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the brinkmanship taking place in the local Labour Party over controversial reselections With just seven days left before the official opening of nominations for all candidates for the local elections, there remain two … Continue reading →

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Lewis is given another £1.3m to spend on Fairfield Halls

Posted on January 31, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Somehow, our cash-strapped council has managed to find a spare million to hand to the under-performing operators of the town centre’s arts venue, thanks to the recommendation of a new employee of The Campaign Company. EXCLUSIVE By … Continue reading →

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Labour centrists expel veteran Croydon campaigner White

Posted on January 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON LABOUR IN CRISIS: A former Labour member of the GLC and long-time activist in Croydon Central who did much to get Sarah Jones elected to parliament has been kicked out of the party because of pro-Palestinian tweets from eight … Continue reading →

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Labour failed to conduct checks on councillor’s racist tweets

Posted on January 16, 2022 by insidecroydon

Labour’s dodgy candidate selection process has come under scrutiny once again after the party chose to blame Philip Normal for failing to disclose his “offensive and discriminatory” tweets when he was selected as a councillor in 2017. It is the … Continue reading →

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Labour councillor’s leaflet causes anger in Addiscombe

Posted on November 19, 2021 by insidecroydon

An Addiscombe couple, whose business has cosy links to Labour’s General Secretary David Evans, has shocked and angered party members by distributing a leaflet which tries to pass itself off as official Labour literature. The efforts of Maddie and Mark … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 council elections, Addiscombe East, Ashburton, Business, David Evans, Maddie Henson, Mark Watson | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

‘Beyond farce’ as Labour purges veteran Croydon official

Posted on September 24, 2021 by insidecroydon

STEVEN DOWNES reports on the latest,  and predictable, move by the Labour leadership in what is being called ‘a witch hunt’ against the left David White, one of the longest-serving Labour officials in Croydon, has been “administratively suspended” by the … Continue reading →

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Reed group fined for slow declaration of £800,000 donations

Posted on September 21, 2021 by insidecroydon

Pro-Starmer ‘party within a party’ which has Croydon North MP on its board and links to ‘campaign guru’ David Evans somehow overlooked huge payments from a businessman and a Mayfair hedge fund manager An influential Labour Party group which has … Continue reading →

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Starmer and Evans face impossible task with Croydon South

Posted on September 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

To win the next General Election, Labour needs to gain 124 seats. And Number 122 on the list of Labour target seats is Tory Chris Philp’s Croydon South constituency. Our sarf of the borough correspondent, PEARL LEE, looks at the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2021 London elections, 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, David Evans, Hamida Ali, Jennifer Brathwaite, London-wide issues, Olga Fitzroy, Sarah Jones MP, Stuart King, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Councillors were warned of financial crisis months in advance

Posted on August 5, 2021 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: All but one of the borough’s Labour councillors voted that they had ‘confidence’ in Tony Newman and Simon Hall last year – just weeks after they had received a briefing note that told of an £85m budget … Continue reading →

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Starmer’s Labour is ‘losing members, losing funds, losing staff’

Posted on July 22, 2021 by insidecroydon

Former Corbyn adviser warns that if the opposition leader can’t improve the fortunes of Labour, ‘then he has to go’, as it emerges that Croydon-based firm has been doing consultancy work as the party is making dozens of staff redundant. … Continue reading →

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Voting chaos sees Labour meeting stretch into second day

Posted on May 28, 2021 by insidecroydon

The annual meeting of a local Labour Party last night had to be left incomplete and with unfinished business because the online voting system used could not cope with the demands of the various ballots to be held. Party officials … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022 council elections, Croydon North, David Evans, Jamie Audsley, Maddie Henson, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Leader’s office forced Labour mayors to pull out of meeting

Posted on May 21, 2021 by insidecroydon

Officials working for Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, backed by his party’s two Croydon MPs, pressured a pair of directly-elected mayors from other London boroughs to pull out of a public meeting held in Croydon last night. “We were lent … Continue reading →

Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 council elections, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Community associations, David Evans, Jamie Audsley, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Questions asked over Town Hall Mayor’s business deal

Posted on March 18, 2021 by insidecroydon

Controversial online voting system was bought by Labour Party without any competitive tendering An online voting system used by the Labour Party was bought from a Croydon-based business with no proper tendering process, it is alleged. “Anonyvoter” has been subject … Continue reading →

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