Category Archives: Andrew Price

Perry stages scrutiny stitch-up to dodge the tough questions

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Halfway through his term of office, and the executive Mayor has broken cross-party understandings to dodge scrutiny – appointing a climate crisis sceptic to chair the council’s environment scrutiny committee. WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, reports It took … Continue reading →

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Grumbled recriminations but little is changed at the Town Hall

Fuelled by a double espresso and a Count Binface discounted croissant, political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports from ExCel on the outcome of a couple of Croydon sideshows As news seeped out from ExCel last night of the two Croydon sideshows … Continue reading →

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With 48% turn out in outer London, Khan’s team gets the jitters

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on Labour’s post-polling nervousness and confirmation that in Croydon council by-elections, things are never done as quickly as you might hope Have you ever met a poor bookmaker? No, me neither, which is why when … Continue reading →

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Hellraiser on the ballot paper for Woodside ward by-election

The Greens are bringing a Hellraiser to the council by-elections being held next month. Nicholas Burman-Vince, the actor who played Chatterer Cenobite in Clive Barker’s cult Hellraiser movies, is the Green Party’s candidate for Woodside in the by-election being held … Continue reading →

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NUTS! Croydon Labour blunders into new cover-up shock

Embroiled in a series of controversies, the latest being the cover-up of the vote rigging for their own Croydon East parliamentary selection, the local Labour Party blundered into a cover-up of a different sort in Coulsdon on Saturday. And no, … Continue reading →

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Labour official in police probe picked for ward by-election

By our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Local Labour official Melanie Felton was this afternoon named as the party’s candidate for the Park Hill and Whitgift council by-election. The public vote will take place on May 2, the same date as … Continue reading →

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Tories picked Price for Park Hill before Appleton had resigned

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the latest bail-out from the Conservative-run council’s back benches Croydon Tories had selected their candidate for the forthcoming Park Hill and Whitgift council by-election before their current councillor had even announced that she was … Continue reading →

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