Category Archives: Tom Drummond

Covid outbreak forces LibDems to postpone council meeting

Posted on July 12, 2022 by insidecroydon

CARL SHILTON on the latest accusations of stunts and mistrust on Sutton Council, where the ruling group fears losing key votes Sutton’s Liberal Democrats last night postponed a scheduled meeting of the full council, in a move suspected to have … Continue reading →

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Dodgy Dombey’s ‘squalid and disgraceful’ committees stitch-up

Posted on May 23, 2022 by insidecroydon

On Sutton Council, the opposition groups are fighting for fair representation as the Liberal Democrats, after winning just 53% of council seats, want to instal themselves in more than 60% of committee places. Ahead of tonight’s first meeting of the … Continue reading →

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Dombey survives but Sutton results leave LibDems scarred

Posted on May 6, 2022 by insidecroydon

CARL SHILTON at the election count reports on how senior Liberal Democrats lost their council positions while their party clung on to power, as Labour won their first seats for 20 years The election fight in Sutton turned feral as … Continue reading →

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Boris Johnson wrecks Sutton Tory hopes with hospital pass

Posted on May 4, 2022 by insidecroydon

Our Sutton reporter, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, sifts through the election offering on the other side of the borough boundary Thursday is election day on the other side of the borough’s boundaries, in Lambeth and Southwark, in Merton and Bromley, and in … Continue reading →

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Half of Sutton LibDem councillors quitting at May’s elections

Posted on April 8, 2022 by insidecroydon

Defending the indefensible, whether it is the dodgy deals over the council’s SDEN heat network, the appalling treatment of families with SEND children, or some of the ruling group’s more under-hand conduct, has taken its toll, writes our Civic Offices … Continue reading →

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Sutton’s Simpson show can’t account for £2m SDEN subsidy

Posted on November 6, 2021 by insidecroydon

‘I can’t give you a guarantee there is no fraud’ – the words of an independent accountancy official at a meeting this week caused further dismay to Sutton’s ruling LibDems amid the growing controversy of their loss-making heat network. CARL … Continue reading →

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Opposition renews call for full-scale fraud probe into SDEN

Posted on October 26, 2021 by insidecroydon

Independent review finds that the loss-making, council-owned district heating network has less of a business case, and is more of a basket case, reports CARL SHILTON Richard Simpson, the senior council official who helped unleash the £200million disaster that is … Continue reading →

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Sutton chiefs block opposition from seeing fraud report

Posted on October 19, 2021 by insidecroydon

Our Sutton investigations editor, CARL SHILTON, on the latest strokes being pulled by the LibDem-controlled council Tonight, there is a meeting of the Sutton Shareholdings Board, the committee that exercises the corporate shareholder and governance responsibilities of Sutton Council’s privately-held … Continue reading →

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Sutton Tories unanimous as they elect Drummond as leader

Posted on October 18, 2020 by insidecroydon

Our Sutton correspondent, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, on the new leader of that council’s opposition group Tom Drummond is the new leader of the Conservative opposition on Sutton Council. Drummond succeeds Tim Crowley, who stood down on Friday after nearly seven years … Continue reading →

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