Greens announce parliamentary candidates for three seats across Croydon and Sutton, as a Tory councillor helps out her party in its hour of need by taking on a hopeless task in east London
Ria Patel, the Greens’ councillor in Fairfield ward since 2022, was last night confirmed as the party’s parliamentary candidate in Croydon West for the July 4 General Election.
New target: Green councillor Ria Patel
Croydon West is among the borough’s re-jigged parliamentary constituencies, and is expected to be a “safe” Labour seat, with one poll earlier this week predicting that Labour would win with 68% of the vote, with the Greens relegating the Tories to third place. Sarah Jones, the MP for Croydon Central from 2017, is Labour’s candidate in the new constituency, while the Tories have selected another 2022-intake Croydon councillor, Simon Fox.
Patel is almost certain to place Labour’s abandonment of its £28billion Green Deal pledge at the front-and-centre in her campaigning with Jones, who is Keith Starmer’s shadow cabinet member for industry and decarbonisation. Continue reading
Official figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Metropolitan Police is solving just 1-in-5 burglary cases in Croydon – where Chris Philp, the Tory policing minister, is seeking re-election as an MP.
To make sure that you have a vote in the General Election on July 4 – whether you are in any of Croydon’s four constituencies: Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West and Streatham and Croydon North – you need to ensure that you are registered to vote before midnight on Tuesday June 18.
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SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A prominent artist, who scandalised Victorian society when having an affair with a married woman, and later worked as an Egyptologist and early collector of ceramics for the V&A, has been long overlooked in Croydon, where he lived and died. But DAVID MORGAN, right, has traced the life and works of Henry Wallis
Croydon-based photographer Christopher Hope-Fitch presents his spectacular long-term project Brutalism in Colour as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, starting next week.
