The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, by Paul Holden, has already been a deeply impactful book which has claimed the scalp of Downing Street’s director of strategy and, quite plausibly, No10’s director of communications, too.
Now investigative journalist Holden talks to Inside Croydon columnist Andrew Fisher about how the fraudulent Labour Together project worked to get Starmer elected as Labour leader and, ultimately, Prime Minister, and how the two leading figures behind it were Morgan McSweeney and Steve Reed.
Both McSweeney and Reed are familiar figures to readers of Inside Croydon. Continue reading
Katherine Kerswell’s abrupt exit as Croydon’s £204,000 per year chief executive was no surprise to someone who, until just a couple of months ago, was one of the more experienced members of the council’s leadership team.
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 lasted five months and claimed 300,000 allied casualties. DAVID MORGAN recounts the tragic story of one of them, Captain Henry Willders-Lewis, from Croydon, who died on the first day of the battle, on his 21st birthday
The David Lean Cinema in the Croydon Clocktower will be screening Children of the Wicker Man this Halloween, Friday October 31, followed by a very special question and answer session with the documentary’s maker, and sons of The Wicker Man director Robin Hardy, Dominic and Justin Hardy.
A 60-year-old covid denier with an arsenal of deadly weapons stored in his flat in South Norwood has been found guilty of encouraging terrorism following a two-week trial at the Old Bailey which heard that he had sent tens of thousands of online messages calling for armed uprising and the destruction of national infrastructure.
Perhaps of greatest concern is that these figures come before the latest round of cuts to officers and support staff are implemented at the Metropolitan Police.
