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Category Archives: Andrew Stranack
Union pulls out of hustings over exclusion of six candidates
One of the country’s biggest trades unions, the PCS, has pulled out of sponsorship and organisation of a hustings debate planned to be held in Thornton Heath on Tuesday evening because half the candidates for the November 29 Croydon North … Continue reading
UKIP’s Farage to campaign in Croydon against gay marriage
Nigel Farage , the leader of the UK Independence Party, is bringing further controversy to the Croydon North by-election, visiting the constituency this morning to support his candidate’s ailing campaign and specifically backing Winston McKenzie‘s remarks made in opposition to … Continue reading
Election questions: Andrew Stranack, Conservative
The Croydon North by-election is on November 29, and Inside Croydon has put to candidates a set of questions. We will be putting the responses on the record, published without the artifice, interruptions and grandstanding of the usual hustings. We … Continue reading
Bookmakers rate Respect as by-election second favourite
The bookmakers have made Respect’s Lee Jasper joint second favourite to win the Croydon North by-election, along with Andy Stranack, the Conservative candidate, underlining the view that the battle for votes is wide open behind hot favourite Steve Reed. Reed, … Continue reading
Incinerator should be Croydon North’s burning issue
BRENDAN WALSH is a Green party member from Croydon North who is disappointed, but unsurprised, that the issue of a £1 billion waste incinerator to be built on the boundary of the constituency has barely been mentioned by most of … Continue reading
Tech City ought to be foundation of every party’s manifesto
JONNY ROSE believes that his alternative vision for regeneration, the Silicon Valley of South London, ought be to be front and centre of all the Croydon North by-election candidates’ campaigns It’s election season in Croydon. Rarely seen politicos are coming … Continue reading
Croydon North will be a “two-horse race” says Umunna
Chuka Umunna, Labour’s business spokesman, used a visit to a youth training business in Croydon this morning to dismiss Respect’s entry into the Croydon North by-electioncampaign. “We regard this as likely to be a two-horse race,” said Umunna, the MP … Continue reading
Greens to recycle candidate for Croydon North by-election
An announcement is expected to confirm that Shasha Khan will be the Green party’s candidate in the Croydon North by-election. Croydon resident Khan is the only 2012 candidate declared so far from the leading parties who was also up for … Continue reading
Former Blair adviser on Labour shortlist for Croydon North
A former Downing Street adviser to Tony Blair on race issues is among a five-strong shortlist announced this afternoon by the Labour Party as it seeks to choose a candidate for the Croydon North by-election. The shortlist is a model … Continue reading
Lambeth leader Reed puts himself forward for Croydon North
Labour’s “long list” of applicants to stand as a candidate in the Croydon North by-election includes the leader of Lambeth Council, Steve Reed. Reed, a Brixton Hill councillor who lives in Streatham, has led Lambeth Council since 2006. He is … Continue reading
